An on-duty Metropolitan police officer sexually assaulted a woman at home after a call to deal with a domestic incident, a court has heard.
Southwark crown court, south London, heard the alleged assault occurred after PC Fabian Aguilar-Delgado, 40, offered to search her house in Croydon for her abusive ex-partner while his colleague was in the car outside.
Aguilar-Delgado, who was new to the job and had not been issued with a body-worn camera, denies a single charge of sexual assault. In a recorded police interview played to the court, the woman, who cannot be identified, said she was “tipsy” after drinking three-quarters of a bottle of wine when Aguilar-Delgado “groped” her at the top of the stairs on 24 May, 2020.
The woman said he forced himself on her, kissing her mouth and breasts. The court heard the woman wrote down her phone number and took it out to the car to give to Aguilar-Delgado, from Crawley, West Sussex, because she thought he might want to see her but his colleague returned it.
The woman added: “I was scared to say anything, then I tried to back out of it because I thought: ‘This is the police you are dealing with.’
“But then I thought: ‘If he’s done that to me, has he done it to anyone else?’”
The court has heard that Aguilar-Delgado’s DNA was found on swabs on the complainant’s right nipple and breast.
The woman, who jurors were told is alcohol-dependent, said she later called police to report being “touched up” by an officer because she felt she had been “violated”.
“I thought he might come and kill me or all the officers might gang up on me … and now I won’t even ring the police. I’m too scared.”
The woman denied lying about the incident under cross-examination, telling defence barrister Robert Morris: “I have been through so much domestic violence in my life, do you really think I want to come to court today about a police officer touching me up? No.
“This police officer did this to me.”
Morris suggested: “You are just lying about all this and making it up as you go along?”
The complainant replied: “So where has all the DNA come from then?”
The trial continues.
