A police officer who raped a woman after groping her on their first night out and attacked another victim he met on an internet dating site has been jailed. Michael Darbyshire attacked the women to demonstrate “control, power and to satisfy his own sexual cravings and demands”, Worcester Crown Court was told.
The West Mercia cop, 57, groped the first woman in the beer garden of the White Hart pub in Fernhill Heath, Worcestershire, in November 2018. The pair had been introduced by a mutual friend who worked for the police a few days earlier.
In her police statement, she said: “All of a sudden his mouth went straight over mine. I could feel his teeth and tongue at the back. It was forceful. He put his hands down my trousers. I was shocked.
