A police officer who fantasised about rape, watched porn on duty and exchanged up to 90 ‘highly sexualised’ messages a day with a dozen women has been sacked.
Anthony Spelman, a former police constable with Cheshire Police, was also found to have ‘pursued’ a woman whose son he had previously arrested.
He was accused of recognising the woman on a dating site before sending her sexual messages and meeting up with her.
Chief Constable Mark Roberts said in Spelman’s misconduct report that this behaviour constituted ‘abusing his position as a police officer for a sexual purpose’.
The report also noted that Spelman, who was
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