Son of ex-police boss jailed for sex assaults
JON MACPHERSON
THE son of a former deputy chief commissioner for the police who sexually assaulted two female police officers has been jailed after a judge said he had shown ‘no remorse’.
Faisal Master sexually touched the police officers during two separate incidents at the Griffin Head filling station on Burnley Road in Huncoat, where he was a manager.
The 30-year-old also attempted to bribe the husband of one of the alleged victims and created a fake social media account to contact one of the women.
The father-of-three was found guilty after a twoweek trial at Preston Crown Court of three counts of sexual assault and two counts of perverting the course of justice.
He has now been jailed for 22 months, ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for ten years and given an indefinite restraining order against all three victims.
Judge James Adkin told Master that there was an ‘overwhelming case’ against him and he would receive no credit for persisting with his ‘absurd and untruthful account’.
He said: “It shows you have no insight whatsoever into this sort of offending and have no remorse for what you have done.”
The court heard that the first incident involving a police officer happened in 2013 when she was called to investigate an alleged crime. Master started to ask her ‘uncomfortable’ questions as he was processing CCTV and started ‘chatting her up’ by saying that she had ‘nice breath’ and ‘nice eyes’.
He then stroked her on her cheek and said she was ‘pretty’ and sexually assaulted her. The court heard that on a separate occasion in 2014 another female officer was called to the petrol station and Master ‘immediately made physical contact’.
He complimented her on her handwriting before saying she ‘looked fit’ and asked if she worked out and ‘could see her muscles and abs’.
The jury was told that in another incident Master, of Kirkland Close, Blackburn, hugged and kissed a woman on the cheek and ‘squeezed’ one of her breasts.
While on bail he attended the home of one of the victims and was challenged by her husband.
He started to apologise, asked if there was ‘ anything he could do to make it go away’, and offered the husband money.
The jury heard that Master set up a fake social media account and messaged the officer involved in the second incident to drop the charges.