Police officer accused of sex attack

Based at Bridge Street station in court

A police officer based at Bridge Street station has appeared in court accused of sexual assault and harassment. Sgt Spencer Evans (40) of Royston Road, Harston, appeared before Stevenage magistrates. Evans, who did not enter a plea, was granted bail until his next court appearance. He has been suspended f rom duty with Cambridgeshire police pending the outcome of the court case.

A police sergeant has appeared in court charged with sexual assault and harassment - including biting the toenails of a woman while she slept. Sgt Spencer Evans, who is based at Bridge Street Police Station in Peterborough city centre, appeared at Stevenage Magistrates’ Court in Hertfordshire on Monday facing a number of criminal charges.

Evans (40) of Royston Road, Harston, near Cambridge, faced a total of five charges, against three alleged victims at the preliminary hearing at the magistrates’ court.

He is accused of putting the three women in fear of violence, one count of recording for the purposes of voyeurism and sexually assaulting one of them.

During the hearing Evans did not enter a plea, and he was granted bail until the next court appearance.

The case was adjourned until another preliminary hearing takes palce at St Albans Crown Court, also in Hertfordshire, in September.

The alleged offences are all said to have taken place in a two year period between September 2007 and September 2009.

The harassment charges include a variety of offences, including sending unwanted pictures of his genitals, biting off fingernails and toenails while one of the alleged victims was asleep, walking around a flat making a growling noise, damaging clothing and other property, sending unwanted text messages to one woman’s husband and emailing her father, making threatening gestures in a restaurant and sending texts to say he had been watching one woman.

Evans has been suspended from duty by Cambridgeshire police while the court proceedings take place.

Bridge Street Police Station.