A police constable accused of raping a businesswoman he met on Bumble told her ‘I can’t stop, it feels so good’ after she told him: ‘We are not having sex.’
PC David Longden-Thurgood, of Waterlooville, Hampshire, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court accused of the rape of the woman, a mother in her 30s, at her home in October, 2020.
The court heard how the long-serving Hampshire police officer had been on his first date with the woman but was allegedly ‘not prepared to take no for an answer’.
Giving evidence, the female told the court that despite her warnings, the 49-year-old refused to stop raping her, instead saying: ‘I can’t stop, It feels so good.’
PC David Longden-Thurgood, of Waterlooville, Hampshire, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court accused of the rape of the woman. He is pictured leaving the court
The complainant told the jury she exchanged sexualised messages with the 49-year-old defendant after they met on the Bumble dating app.
She said the messages included Longden-Thurgood sending her a photograph of his erect penis.
The pair agreed for Longden-Thurgood to come round to her home and she said they sat on a sofa together with her legs on top of him.
Describing the encounter, she said they began kissing while watching television and she suggested they watched a TV series called Outcry, which is about sexual abuse.
The complainant said the defendant put his hand under her t-shirt and she then took off her bra.
She said as they continued kissing, Longden-Thurgood tried to undo her jeans and she stopped him and told him and said: ‘We are not having sex.’
She agreed that he took his hands away and they continued kissing until she suggested they go upstairs for a cuddle in bed.
She said that as they went up, she told him: ‘I said no funny business,’ to which he replied: ‘OK.’
The woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – said she stripped down to her t-shirt and knickers and the defendant to his boxer shorts before they got into bed together.
Longden-Thurgood, who has been a police officer with Hampshire Constabulary for 19 years, allegedly told his victim ‘I can’t stop, it feels so good’ as he raped her
She said they were involved in ‘passionate’ kissing while he intimately touched her body and removed her remaining clothes as well as his boxer shorts.
The mother said she was ‘participating and enthusiastic’ and added: ‘I was laying there and enjoying it.’
She told the court that she did not touch the defendant. She added that after the sexual intimacy started, she had told the defendant she did not want to have sex.
‘He had got off the bed and taken his boxer shorts off, it was at that stage I said “we are not having sex”,’ she told the court.
Earlier the court heard how the defendant replied: ‘Don’t worry, we won’t have sex,’
But prosecutor Rebecca Fairbairn said that ‘without warning’, the defendant then penetrated the complainant.
Describing the alleged rape, the woman told the court the PC penetrated her while they were being intimate but she had not said ‘no’ at this stage.
Earlier, Rebecca Fairbairn, prosecuting, told the jury at Winchester Crown Court (pictured) that the 48-year-old defendant ‘would not take no for an answer’
The court heard she did not confront him because she was terrified her children would be woken up.
‘It was anything they might have witnessed should they have been awoken that night,’ she added.
The complainant said she again told him that she did not want sex, he told her: ‘I can’t stop, it feels so good.’
She said that afterwards, she went to the bathroom but did then return to the bed with him after about two minutes.
She said: ‘I think I was in shock at that point, I didn’t know what to do and how to get out of the situation I was in.
‘I was in shock. I wanted him to get out of my house.’
Longden-Thurgood, who has been a police officer for 19 years and serves Hampshire Constabulary, denies the charge and the trial continues.
