A woman on the train was so offended by Detective Constable David Lavery’s comments that she moved seats, while his colleagues repeatedly told him to tone it down
A top cop faces the sack for pestering a colleague to sleep with him and loudly bragging about making a sex room in his house. Detective Constable David Lavery is accused of making “persistent requests” to a female detective for sex.
He is said to have made “inappropriate comments” about a sex chair for the room while he was on a train to Newcastle with other officers last June after a boozy day out in York with colleagues.
They repeatedly asked him to tone it down but he carried on bragging about it and even showed off an image of the chair he was planning to buy, a misconduct hearing was told. A woman nearby was so offended she moved seats, it is claimed.
When they reached Newcastle Central Station, he got the same Metro home as the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons. She told the hearing how he said to her: “So are you coming back to mine then for some sexual intercourse?”
The woman, who is in a relationship, said she responded by kicking him in the shin. She told the hearing at Houghton-le-Spring police station: “It was so graphic and so inappropriate and so disrespectful to speak in that way when I already told him it wasn’t ok.
“I should not have been put in that position. I should not have to explain that it’s not appropriate. It’s not appropriate language or behaviour.”
The woman told the hearing DC Lavery previously brought up the topic of sex and others were saying “Come on Dave” in an attempt to get him to stop, the Chronicle reports.
The woman told the hearing how DC Lavery had previously made her feel uncomfortable during a previous night out in Newcastle. She claims he told her “I really like that dress – and you wear it so well”.
She said: “It just made me feel a little bit weird. The comment ‘You wear it so well’ suggested something about my physical appearance and how the dress fit on my body. I just didn’t like it. I just thought it wasn’t necessary to say that.”
“I noticed throughout the night he was trying to get quite close to me. He was sitting next to me in different bars. He was coming up to me trying to dance with me.”
The woman said they got on the same Metro home and DC Lavery told her not to get picked up by her partner’s dad and to go back to his house instead. She said: “He said ‘Come on, come back to mine. Come back to mine’. I thought this is so inappropriate I went ‘Dave f*** off”.”
The Northumbria Police officer is accused of gross misconduct and faces dismissal if found guilty. He admitted making inappropriate and loud comments about buying a sex chair, but denies that the matter amounts to gross misconduct.
He denies making inappropriate and persistent requests, which could be considered an invitation for sex, and making an inappropriate request to the woman that she should go with him to his home and an offensive request that she have sexual intercourse with him.
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