A NSW Police officer has been taken into custody after his bail was revoked by a judge, two days after he was found guilty of choking and sexually assaulting his then-wife.<\/p>\n
The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, stood trial in the NSW District Court on 19 domestic violence-related charges.<\/p>\n
Family and domestic violence support services:NSW Domestic Violence Line<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a01800 656 463Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0131 114Men’s Referral Service<\/a>\u00a0on 1300 766 491Mensline<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a01300 789 978Full Stop Australia<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a01800 385 578Emergency services on Triple Zero (000) if you need immediate care<\/p>\n On Tuesday, a jury found him guilty of 11 of those charges, including choking, sexual intercourse without consent and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n The offences occurred over several years while he was married to the victim, the court heard.<\/p>\n The officer had been on bail, but prosecutors lodged a detention order following the verdict, citing the victim’s concerns about the man being on bail while awaiting his sentencing, which is due on September 3.<\/p>\n He remains suspended without pay from his position at NSW Police.<\/p>\n Jail poses ‘more significant risk to his harm’<\/p>\n Defence barrister Sharon Ramsden, for the officer, argued her client had special circumstances that meant he should stay on bail, including that he was being treated for a long-standing diagnosis of PTSD, and that he was a police officer.<\/p>\n She said his employment meant his safety was at risk in jail, and the prison system may not be immediately ready to protect him if he was sent into custody today.<\/p>\n “As a police officer of some years \u2026 there is a perhaps more significant risk to his harm,” she said.<\/p>\n But the Crown prosector in the case told the court there were routine procedures in place to ensure the protection of police officers taken into custody.<\/p>\n Judge Philip Hogan described the officer’s offending as “very serious” and said he did not believe there were any special circumstances that should allow him to remain on bail.<\/p>\n “I order that the offender be taken into custody,” Judge Hogan said.<\/p>\n The officer nodded after hearing the decision and hugged four supporters in court before he was taken into custody by Corrective Services NSW officers.<\/p>\n The court also heard the officer had lodged a notice of intention to appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NSW Police officer has been taken into custody after his bail was revoked by a judge, two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,372323,122866,44,2733,4277,7978,13396],"class_list":["post-789646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bail-revoked","tag-choking","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-police","tag-police-officer","tag-rape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}