Disgraced cop discovered responsible of sexually assaulting girl and filming it

A disgraced former Essex Police officer wept within the dock as he was instructed he was now a convicted intercourse offender after being discovered responsible of sexually assaulting a girl following a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.

Steven Tissier, 37, of Chelmsford was on trial for 2 counts of sexual assault and a single cost of voyeurism.

Tissier was a serving police officer on the time of the incident the place he touched his sufferer’s legs and backside however has since left Essex Police. The disgraced cop insisted that the sexual acts had been consensual and the girl knew she was being filmed.

The sufferer stated she had woken up when Tissier first touched her however pretended to be asleep as a result of she was frightened and hoped he would cease.

The incidents occurred after an evening out the place ‘quite a lot of alcohol had been consumed’, the jury of eight males and 4 ladies had been instructed. The sufferer took a prepare from London to Chelmsford with a pal, arriving round half an hour earlier than Tissier who was on a unique prepare to the Essex metropolis.

Steven Tissier, 37, of Chelmsford was on trial for 2 counts of sexual assault and a single cost of voyeurism

Tissier’s sufferer stated she had woken up when he first touched her however pretended to be asleep as a result of she was frightened and hoped he would cease

The sufferer was stated to be ‘not eager’ to get a taxi trip house alone. Instead, she accepted the supply of a taxi again to Tissier’s handle.

‘It didn’t cross [the woman’s] thoughts that this may have any sexual or intimate relation,’ Mr Matthew Sorel-Cameron, for the prosecution, stated within the trial.

Tissier and the girl took a taxi to the defendant’s mom’s house the place the girl was stated to have shortly fallen asleep on a settee.

‘She was correctly woken up by Steven Tissier stroking up and down her legs,’ Mr Sorel-Cameronl continued. ‘She was sporting tights [at the time]. He started together with her thighs earlier than shifting as much as her backside. She didn’t transfer. She stored her eyes closed and pretended to be asleep.’

The sufferer sat up together with her head in her palms when Tissier left the room. She requested the previous cop to name a taxi regardless of that ‘not being the plan’.

A taxi was referred to as to take the girl again to her house however Tissier then ‘put his hand down [the woman’s] high and groped her left breast’.

The prosecution stated: ‘He was, in her phrases, ‘taking part in with it’. The sufferer says it went on for a couple of minute. It ended when he introduced her taxi had arrived.’

Tissier’s conviction of voyeurism was in relation to his filming of one of many sexual assaults.

The jury heard that the girl was not shifting or making any noises through the filming of the incident, however Tissier nonetheless insisted she had consented and was conscious of the filming.

The jury heard that Tissier had despatched a message to a pal saying the girl ‘appeared asleep or useless’. When requested why he thought she appeared useless, he stated: ‘It was the truth that she was mendacity there, she wasn’t leaping round. It was a determine of speech.’

Mr Sorel-Cameron stated to Tissier: ‘The actuality is by 2.19am she is quick asleep on the couch, is not she?’ Tissier replied: ‘I do not imagine she was quick asleep’.

Tissier was instructed he was now convicted intercourse offender after being discovered responsible of sexually assault following a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court

Mr Sorel-Cameron stated: ‘The movies you took of her had been solely to your personal profit.’ Tissier responded the video was ‘for the advantage of each of us’.

Mr Sorel-Cameron put to Tissier: ‘The first time she heard about them was months after you took them, you heard her say that did not you? Was she mendacity?’ Tissier replied: ‘I do not assume she was mendacity, I used to be below the impression that she knew they had been being taken.’

Asked in a video interview with cops on March 13 what the impression of the incidents had been, the girl responded: ‘I’m not sleeping nicely in any respect. It sounds actually foolish however to consolation myself to go to sleep I’d stroke my leg however I am unable to do this now with out reminding myself of all of it. I’ll attempt to nap and it will not occur anymore.’

Jane Foster, Senior Crime Prosecutor from the Crime Prosecution Service (CPS), stated: ‘An enormous focus for the prosecution was the proof recovered from Steven Tissier’s cell phone which confirmed him sharing proof of his assault with two buddies. It included WhatsApp messages and a photograph, despatched whereas the sufferer was asleep earlier than the assault, and video clips of the assault despatched to a different pal.

‘This additionally revealed a Snapchat dialog he had with the sufferer some days earlier than the assault when he instructed ‘a threesome’, a suggestion that the sufferer rejected, which demonstrated that his sexual curiosity in her was not reciprocated.

When he thought the sufferer was asleep Tissier acted on these emotions regardless of there being no indication that the sufferer was consenting to sexual exercise with him and no affordable perception on his half that she was.’

Tissier can be sentenced at a later date.