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21 November 2005

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Policeman performed ‘sex act’

WYCOMBE policeman James McKenna has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a male university student.

McKenna, 29, from Flackwell Heath, who is based at High Wycombe police station, appeared at Reading Crown Court, after the university undergraduate said he had assaulted him after a drunken night out, in September last year.

The victim said he awoke to find McKenna performing a sex act on him in the bed the two men had shared. They argued and the victim threw McKenna, a heavy drinker, out of his house.

The victim said he felt so violated he immediately vomited. The court heard that DNA evidence taken from the genitalia and boxer shorts of the victim matched samples taken from the mouth of the PC.

Stewart Patterson, prosecuting, said: "The last thing he McKenna said before leaving the house was does this mean you are going to get me fired tomorrow?'"

McKenna, a serving police officer for a year-and-a-half, denied sexual assault and said he was "repulsed" by the thought of oral sex with a man. He said: "It is something I would not do."

He claimed the victim had given him date rape drugs which blocked his memory of the whole incident.

The two men had met each other three times before the attack and had shared a bed a week earlier after a similar night out.

The court heard that the pair had been drinking in the Here and Now bar, in Octagon Parade, High Wycombe, in September last year.

McKenna had arranged to "crash out" at the victim's High Wycombe home. McKenna said his memory loss began at 2am, when the men left the bar.

He said the next thing he remembered is walking to High Wycombe police station, arriving at 6am. During questioning, McKenna, a former car salesman, said he couldn't remember being at the victim's home. However, he said it was the only logical place he could have been because of their previous arrangements.

He said: "I can remember walking to Wycombe police station. I knew something was wrong. I was confused as to how I was at the station. I have spent hours trying to remember what happened but nothing changes."

Mr Patterson said of his amnesia: "This is a man who may be shamming, a man that may be faking it all."

Patricia May, defending, told the court the victim had invited the accused to share his bed for the second time, and drugged McKenna before forcing him into an oral sex act without his consent. She said that McKenna was the victim.

She said: "He is a gregarious and sociable young man. How can the tearfulness, disorientation, being spaced out be explained? If people are making it up they give themselves away."

McKenna is due to be sentenced on December 16. Investigating officer, Acting Superintendent, Ashley Smith, of the force's professional standards department, said McKenna had been suspended, adding: "This is a very traumatic crime which we take very seriously. We insist on highest standards of integrity and professionalism from staff. Unfortunate cases where we have evidence of a serious offence, like this, we'll always act quickly and decisively to deal with it."

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