Two on-duty police officers 'used their position' to have a threesome with a drunken woman in a patr

Two police officers ‘used their position’ to have sex with a drunken woman in a patrol car after she was kicked out of a nightclub, a court heard.

PC Matthew Longmate, 47, was on duty with PC Daniel Nash, 41, in Chesterfield town centre when they offered the woman a lift home following an incident at the Association Bar.

Prosecutor Polly Dyer said the woman recalls having intercourse with Nash while she performed a sex act on Derbyshire Constabulary colleague Longmate on 4 October 2015.

Nash admitted misconduct in relation to the incident and to other offences of misconduct, jurors were told.

‘He has subsequently succumbed to cancer and passed away,’ said Ms Dyer.

Former PC Matthew Longmate, 46, faces one misconduct charge

Former PC Daniel Nash, 40, faced 13 charges of misconduct in a public office – he has since passed away from cancer (Pictured in 2022)

Longmate denies one charge of misconduct.

Ms Dyer told jurors at Southwark Crown Court the woman contacted police in 2020.

‘She did so to complain about contact she had received from Daniel Nash. That contact included him reminding her of an event from 2015, an event that she had wanted to forget.

‘As she came to disclose to the police, some years before she was ejected from a club in Chesterfield City Centre. That had followed a disagreement with an ex-boyfriend of a friend of hers.

‘Following her ejection, she was offered a lift home by two police officers who were outside the club. They were on duty, in uniform and in a police car.

‘She recalled that enroute to her home, she engaged in sexual activity with both officers in the police car.

‘She could remember being in the back of the police car, having vaginal intercourse with the officer she now knew to be Daniel Nash whilst leaning into the front of the car and giving the other officer present oral sex.

‘[The woman] was extremely drunk. She did not remember consenting to what took place, but assumed she must have done.

The two police officers are said to have offered the woman a lift home following an incident at the Association Bar

Longmate denies one charge of misconduct in relation to the alleged incident 

‘She expressed how extremely embarrassed she was, and the fact she would never have acted in this way had she been sober.’

She said of the officers: ‘They used their position as police officers, offering her a lift home and then used that opportunity to engage in sexual activity with a woman who was extremely vulnerable and in need of their protection, by virtue of her drunken state and the fact she had been involved in an incident which had attracted the attention of the police.

‘There is no dispute that such activity amounts to misconduct in public office, undermining and abusing the trust the public have in police officers..’

She told the court that while the woman only positively identified Nash, Longmate had been his partner on the night of the incident.

Nash also named Longmate as the other officer in the car on that day, jurors heard.

When Longmate was arrested in November 2021 he denied he had been in the car with Nash at the time of the incident in 2015.

Longmate, who appeared in court wearing a dark blue suit, denies one charge of wilfully misconducting himself while acting as a police officer.

The trial is expected to last four to five days.

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