Officer raped woman at his home, court hears
BBCAn off-duty police officer raped a woman at his home after meeting her through a dating website, a court has heard.
Exeter Crown Court heard Stuart Mines, 49, had non-consensual intercourse with a woman he had met through an online dating app in October 2022.
Mr Mines, a Devon and Cornwall Police officer, denied rape and said everything that happened between them was consensual.
The jury heard the woman was invited to Mr Mines' house for Sunday lunch on 2 October 2022.
Prosecuting barrister Josh Ticehurst told the court the pair engaged in some intimacy and both undressed to their underwear, but the woman had told Mr Mines she did not want sexual intercourse.
"She will say the defendant had sex with her and she didn't want it. And she told him she didn't want it," Mr Ticehurst said.
"She told him no."
Mr Ticehurst told the court the woman stayed and ate with the defendant afterwards, and she contacted him later to thank him for the food.
She was "extremely uncomfortable" with what had happened, he said.
'I said no'
He added there was no typical response from victims in such situations.
The woman felt she had to stay and was worried she would not be believed, the court heard.
She later reported the incident to police in April 2023.
The jury was shown a video of a police interview with the woman from May 2023, where she said she reported the rape to police then because she felt stronger.
She told how after she left Mr Mines' house she had got into her car and banged the steering wheel saying to herself "I said no".
She said she went home and had a shower and threw her top and underwear away, the court heard.
Mr Mines denies they had intercourse.
The trial continues.
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