POLICEWOMAN’S LIFE WITH BENT COPPER SLIME OF My twisted police lover planted drugs in my bag & sent undies pic to cop pals

A POLICEWOMAN has told how she was framed for carrying drugs – by her copper boyfriend.

Anguished PC Nikki Yianni, 30, was left a shattered wreck after twisted Joe Prasad set out to undermine her.

In a story straight from Line of Duty, the telly drama about police corruption, Prasad spent months behaving in ways Nikki has never understood.

He repeatedly made anonymous calls to the police and Crimestoppers, claiming she was dealing drugs.

He jealously scrolled through texts on her phone and sent an embarrassing photo of her in her underwear to colleagues.

And Nikki believes he planted drugs on her several times – once on her way to a kids’ birthday party and even on her graduation day at police college.

The plot to wreck her life finally reached a head when she was coming out of a supermarket with her daughter – and was stopped by a PCSO who found ecstasy in her handbag.

Abusive

She was arrested in shock, spent 13 hours in a cell and endured weeks of hell before being cleared of wrongdoing.

Prasad, also a PC, was eventually jailed for his secret campaign and Nikki has gone on to find happiness with a new man.

But now she has decided to speak out about her emotional torture to help other victims of abusive relationships.

The 30- year- old mum of two said: “Never in a million years would I think anyone could do to another human being what Joe did to me.

“It has shown me how domestic abuse does not have to be physical, it can be mental. These drugs kept appearing on me and I’ve never taken any in my life. I thought I was going crazy.”

Nikki’s experience could almost form a script for Line of Duty, which follows anti- corruption officers as they probe matters such as murder and bribery within the force.

The BBC show, starring Adrian Dunbar and Vicky McClure, keeps millions gripped with tense plots.

In an ironic twist, Nikki first got involved with Prasad, long before she joined the police, because she was having trouble with an ex-boyfriend. The ex had begun stalking her to the extent that he was sleeping in her front garden so she asked Prasad, who she al already knew was a police officer, for advice. She found the cop, who was attached to the Specialist Crime and Operations Unit of London’s Metropolitan Police, friendly and helpful and agreed to date him. She said: “I was coming out of this volatile relationship and Joe was always there. H He did and said all the right things. “I w was a single mum and he had two kids so that was nice.” But s strain started to show nine months into the th relationship after Nikki started workin working for Prasad’s mother at a care home i in Newbury Park, Essex. She s said: “We started arguing at about that po point and after that we would pretty much row all the time.” Ni Nikki discovered Prasad was also lying about seeing an ex-girlfriend and the relationship became increasingly tu turbulent and on-off. In February 2014, while they were h having a break from each other, Nikki decided to revive an old dream and join the police.

By the time she was accepted for training she and Prasad had got back together. To begin with he was helpful, looking after her daughter Ellie while she studied.

But as time passed she noticed he became less enthusiastic and even seemed jealous of her new career.

Humiliated

She said: “He wasn’t happy and said I didn’t pay him enough attention.

“One night I came home at 10.30pm and he complained that I was on my phone. I chucked it over to him and told him to stop complaining and he immediately started reading my texts.”

Prasad spotted a text from a male colleague and flew into a rage. He was so angry he posted a revealing photo of Nikki