‘Arrogant’ police officer, 38, who abused his position to have sex sessions with vulnerable student, 21, after being called out to her home to do a welfare check is found guilty

An ‘arrogant’ police officer who had sex with a vulnerable young woman while on duty has been warned he faces a lengthy prison sentence.

Shamraze Arshad, an officer with Greater Manchester Police, appeared shocked this afternoon when a jury unanimously convicted him of misconduct in public office.

The jury of three women and nine men took just 75 minutes to find him guilty and the 38-year-old shook his head in the dock and repeatedly muttered ‘Oh my God’ under his breath.

During the four-day trial, Liverpool Crown Court heard that father-of-two Arshad met the 21-year-old after he and a colleague were called to her student accommodation in Fallowfield on October 28, 2020, when she was suicidal. .

Shamraze Arshad (pictured outside Liverpool Crown Court) denied ever having sex with the complainant during the trial

The jury of three women and nine men took just 75 minutes to find him guilty and the 38-year-old shook his head in the dock and repeatedly muttered: ‘Oh my God’

During the four-day trial, Liverpool Crown Court (pictured) heard that father-of-two Arshad met the 21-year-old after he and a colleague were called to her student house in Fallowfield.

He submitted a care plan for her after she was taken to hospital and after he finished his shift, “that should have been the end of the case,” prosecutor Jamie Baxter said.

But later that morning, while off duty, he used his police cellphone to find her personal details and started calling her several hours after she was taken to hospital.

‘In the days that followed he began asking her out and in the weeks and months that followed his contact with her continued and the result was that the defendant, a serving police officer, began an intimate and ultimately sexual relationship with this vulnerable man . young woman he met in a crisis.

‘Far from the knight in shining armor she initially believed him to be, we suggest she was selected by him for those same vulnerabilities that led him to first meet her and to abuse his position as a police officer on duty to gain her trust, to sleep with her.

“His concern was not her well-being, but rather his own sexual desires,” Mr Baxter said.

After about seven months, she ended their casual relationship, which she described to the jury as “friends with benefits,” and said he would come over for 15 to 20 minutes “for some fun time in bed.”

Arshad, of Ascott Close, Lostock, Bolton, who joined GMP in October 2018, was convicted at a trial last summer of attempting to pervert the course of justice and unauthorized access to the police computer.

Judge Stuart Driver QC remanded Arshad in custody overnight for his sentencing tomorrow and warned him: ‘You are going to prison for a significant period of time’

Arshad was arrested on July 19, 2021 and released on bail on the condition that he not contact the woman in any way, but he immediately went to her house. While she was gone, he came back the next morning and woke her up by banging on her window. The frightened woman hid in the bathroom and called the police.

Arshad, of Ascott Close, Lostock, Bolton, who joined GMP in October 2018, was convicted at a trial last summer of attempting to pervert the course of justice and unauthorized access to the police computer.

That jury could not reach a verdict on the misconduct that led to this week’s retrial. Arshad was dismissed from the Force last year.

Judge Stuart Driver QC remanded Arshad in custody last night ahead of his sentencing tomorrow and warned him: ‘You are going to prison for a significant period of time.’

Defense QC Peter Wright told the court Arshad has reconciled with his partner, who is pregnant with their third child, and has two stepchildren.

During the trial, Arshad denied ever having sex with the complainant.