‘PCSO raped victim of domestic violence he was helping’, trial jury is told

A POLICE community support officer from Yorkshire raped a domestic violence victim after telling her he could help her, a jury was told.

Orhan Yigit, from Castleford in West Yorkshire, also sexually assaulted another woman after visiting her home to investigate the reported theft of a vehicle, Leeds Crown Court heard.

Ian Brook, prosecuting, told the jury that the 40-year-old defendant got to know a woman who was the victim of domestic violence through her husband.

Mr Brook said Yigit asked to use the toilet during one visit to her home and took his police uniform off before coming down the stairs naked, exposing himself to her.

The jury was told that Yigit had seen bruises on the woman’s body and knew that she had been the victim of domestic violence in her relationship with her husband.

Mr Brook told the court that the woman was “low and desperate” and felt she ended up in a situation where she had to perform a sex act on Yigit when she did not want to.

Mr Brook added: “He was going to help her get out of the house and the predicament she was in and she didn’t feel she had an option.”

Yigit was charged with rape in connection with that allegation, which is said to have occurred between September and December 2015.

He was charged with sexually assaulting the same woman during another visit to her home in late 2015.

Mr Brook also alleged that Yigit sexually assaulted another woman who answered the door in her nightdress after he visited her home last April in response to a report that a vehicle had been stolen.

Yigit, of Ward Road, Castleford, denies rape, two charges of sex assault and misconduct in a public office in connection with the allegation of indecent exposure.

The trial continues.