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Plymouth Evening Herald - Plym
27 June 2008
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Police officer is cleared of r
A POLICEMAN from Saltash who was accused of multiple counts of rape has been acquitted on all charges.
PC Jamie Gilbert was yesterday found not guilty on four rape allegations after an 11-day hearing at Exeter Crown Court.
Relatives and friends of the 34-year-old, of Birkdale Close, Saltash, cried with relief after jurors returned a unanimous not guilty verdict on all the charges.
The jury of four men and eight women, took 90 minutes to make their decision after they were sent out at the end of the judge's summing up yesterday morning.
Gilbert, who was suspended from work at Callington Police Station when the complaints were made against him in June 2007, made no comment after the hearing, but hugged family members outside the courtroom.
He will remain suspended while Devon and Cornwall Police examine the evidence presented to the court to see if police misconduct proceedings should follow.
Throughout the case, Gilbert had pleaded not guilty, and said any sex he had with the woman had been consensual. He said no sexual contact had taken place between the two on three of the dates when she said she was raped.
The PC, who was a 17 stone bodybuilder at the time she alleged the attacks took place, denied her claims that he had regularly taken steroids to boost his physique.
During the trial, Gilbert admitted his appearance may be “intimidating” to some people. But he said: “I am the way I look, I can't change that.”
He said her claims were “totally fictitious”.
The court heard that the woman was in regular phone and text contact with the officer immediately after the dates when she claimed she was raped.
During the trial, Gilbert's defence counsel, Christopher Wilson Smith QC, asked the jury: “Can you imagine any woman having conversations and text contact like this if she had just been raped? It's a nonsense.”
He suggested she was “too ready to throw around rape allegations”, and said: “The defence case is that he's not an abuser, and the evidence supports him on that.”
The court also heard that the woman had a history of depression, and had taken cocaine and ecstasy in the past. And her ex-husband had branded her “evil” and “a nightmare” during their time together.
The woman told the court that she had waited more than a year to report the crimes because she was “too scared” to go to the police, because Gilbert was a serving officer.
Speaking outside the court yesterday, DCI Dave Beer, of the police professional standards department, said: “Police officers will be investigated the same as any other person would be.”
After the hearing, the police released a statement which read: “The Devon and Cornwall Constabulary have robustly investigated allegations of rape made by the victim against Jamie Gilbert.
“The investigation was supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
“On the evidence presented to the court Mr Gilbert, who is a Police Constable within the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary has been found not guilty.
“This officer will now remain suspended from duty until the Constabulary has assessed the evidence obtained during the criminal investigation, and ascertained whether police misconduct proceedings should follow.
“In view of this it would be inappropriate to comment further.”
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