Rape beast policeman claimed his victim was ‘up for it’
A FORMER Greater Manchester Police officer has been jailed for five years after raping a sleeping woman while his police officer wife slept in the adjoining bedroom.
A court heard how Ian Clarke, 48, went into a bedroom naked and raped the victim, believing ‘she was up for it’ and unable to resist him.
Clarke was told by Judge Rhys Rowlands while he was a man of previous good character, there was evidence of ‘a quite immature, offensive, if not dismissive attitude towards women.’
When Clarke was convicted following a trial, where he denied one count of rape, the court heard he and his wife were both police officers who had transferred from GMP to the North Wales force in 2013.
Clarke, of St Peter’s Park in Northop, Flintshire, was ordered to register with the police as a sex offender for life at his sentencing hearing. He was told by the judge he did not have ‘an ounce of remorse’ about what he had done that night in December 2015.
He portrayed himself as ‘the victim of a drunken, consensual dalliance’ in which he simply regretted cheating on his wife as she slept in a next door room. Judge Rowlands said Clarke maintained he had been treated unfairly by his colleagues and he felt like an outsider after his transfer from GMP. That had been rejected by the jury at Mold Crown Court and the judge said all his colleagues had behaved responsibly and professionally.
The judge said there had been evidence of him searching dating sites.
The victim did not instigate or give him any indication at all that she wanted it to happen.
The judge said: “You showed a callous indifference to her feelings and an overblown sense of your own importance and raped her.”
No force was used but it had been ‘quite appalling behaviour.’
Bob Sastry, defending, said Clarke had lost his good character, his marriage and his career. The rape was not premeditated and the aggravating features were limited. He said it was ‘completely out of character. There is no pattern of offending, quite the opposite.’.