Off-duty cop who had sex with drunk woman in patrol car is spared jail

15 January 2024 , 22:24

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Pc Matthew Longmate, 47, and a Derbyshire Constabulary colleague had sex with the woman after she was ejected from a Chesterfield nightclub in October 2015

A policeman who had sex with a drunk woman in his patrol car during a threesome with a colleague has been spared jail.

PC Matthew Longmate, 47, gave the woman a lift after she was ejected from a nightclub in October 2015. A court heard the dad of two had sex in a “moment of madness” but had been encouraged by PC Daniel Nash, a “serial offender”.

The pair had been on duty in a marked police car when they offered to take the woman home. A judge said Nash had sex with the woman, who also performed a sex act on Longmate. The incident did not come to light until 2020, when the “vulnerable” woman made a complaint to police after Nash tried to have sex with her again.

Longmate’s attempts to pin the blame on his colleague backfired when Nash identified him as the other officer involved. The trial heard the Derbyshire Constabulary officers picked up the woman in Chesterfield town centre. Longmate, who once saved a woman’s life while on duty, has been dismissed by the force.

Yesterday at Southwark crown court in Central London, Judge Christopher Hehir told him he decided to be “very lenient”. He suspended a 12-month term for a year after he was found guilty of misconduct in public office.

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Nash pleaded guilty to 14 counts of the same offence and was spared a prison sentence in August before dying of cancer a month later. Independent Office for Police Conduct director of operations Steve Noonan said Longmate’s term “demonstrates this type of offence is rightly taken seriously”.

After Longmate’s guilty verdict in November, his force’s Deputy Chief Constable Simon Blatchly said he had “actively sought to abuse his position while on patrol”.

Tom Pettifor