Prisoners 'assaulted and raped by police sergeant' 

 A police sergeant abused his position of power to carry out a string of sexual
 assaults, including two rapes, on female prisoners in his care and women he met
 while on  duty, a court was told yesterday. 

 A jury at Nottingham Crown Court was told that Paul Banfield, 32, deliberately
 targeted "vulnerable" women detained while he was custody sergeant at a Cambridge
 police station – using his role to gain access to their cells and carry out
 indecent assaults on two women and the rape of another while out of sight of
 security cameras. 

 The officer was also reported to have taken the address of a burglary victim
 and used it hours later to break into her home and rape her in her bed. 

 The sergeant, who described himself to one of his victims as "lonely", tried
 to approach the women after the attacks, telling them he would see them again
 and warning one prisoner he allegedly raped that if she complained, things
 would be worse for her. 

 Roy Amlot QC, for the prosecution, said Sgt Banfield, who has already admitted
 sexually assaulting two women in the cells of Parkside police station, Cambridge,
 had systematically carried out the cell attacks over 15 days in September and
 October. 

 Sgt Banfield, also accused of attacking two women in their homes between September
 1998 and last August, denies two counts of rape, one of burglary with intent to
 commit rape and one of indecent assault. 

 The jury was told that Sgt Banfield's admission of indecently assaulting two
 further victims – Miss D and Miss F – in the two weeks before the rape of Miss A
 proved a pattern to his activities. Miss F, 20, arrested on suspicion of
 shoplifting on 24 September last year, was kissed by Sgt Banfield before he
 lay on her. It was said that he only moved after fearing he was about to be
 disturbed. He again assaulted her at her home in front of  her sister in the
 days after the original attack. 

 The court was told the only victim that the sergeant did not meet through his
 duties was a worker for the Crown Prosecution Service, who was allegedly attacked
 last August. 

 The case, scheduled to last up to four weeks, continues.

 By Cahal Milmo 
 8 June 2000

 The Independent

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 "Perceptions" note:

 We've previously shown - at

 www.perceptions.couk.com/answers3.html#seda2

 how "seekers-of-authority" - if not reformers - are necessarily abusers of
 some kind, ranging from financial & physical bullies, rapists & other perverts
 inc. organised pedophiles, to murderers and worse (genocide)

 At www.perceptions.couk.com/authority2.html it's also seen that there are more
 bullies, rapists, pedos & murderers in male hierarchy "authority" - police,
 law, judiciary, politics etc - than in the general population 

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