Cop offered sex proposal, Ballarat court hears

By Evan Schuurman
Updated November 2 2012 - 5:21pm, first published September 1 2011 - 8:50am
Cop offered sex proposal, Ballarat court hears
Cop offered sex proposal, Ballarat court hears

A POLICE officer allegedly tried to kiss a female victim-of-crime following her frightened call to 000 over a domestic dispute, a court has heard.The second complainant in the committal hearing of former police prosecutor Shaun Perry gave evidence yesterday, where she also alleged that in a separate incident a senior police officer had propositioned her with sex in exchange for him to “look after” her ex-partner, who was the man involved in the domestic dispute.The officer wasn’t named in court.Shaun Perry, 42, fronted Ballarat Magistrates Court yesterday for the third day running, where he stands charged with two counts of wilful misconduct, and single counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice and unlawful assault.The second complainant, a middle-aged woman from the Ballarat area, spent more than an hour in the witness stand where she was cross-examined by Perry’s defence.She told the court she was forced to call 000 one night in November 2009 after a domestic dispute occurred at her house.She claimed that a male police officer came to her home at some stage the following day after calling her from a nearby phone box.She alleged that at one point the officer put his hands on her hips, and later leant forward and she was “pretty sure” he was going to kiss her.When her ex-partner came out from hiding, the officer ran away, she said.The woman told the court she had also informed the officer about a separate alleged incident at the Ballarat Police Station where a senior police officer had said that if she provided sex, he would “look after” her ex-partner.The woman’s ex-partner also gave evidence, saying he saw the complainant and a male hugging on the day in question.“But from what I saw she wasn’t up for it,” he said.Three police officers have so far given evidence in a hearing which is set to run into a fourth day, with the informant expected to take to the witness stand this morning.On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, a separate complainant gave evidence alleging she had sex with Perry on numerous occasions in early 2009 while she was facing her own criminal charges. She claimed that hours after Perry interviewed her at the police station — on January 16, 2009, the day they were said to have first met — he went to her house and about 10 minutes after arriving they had sex.Magistrate Peter Couzens is presiding over the case.

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