Long-serving detective jailed for raping woman in her home

Trevor Gray attacked the 43-year-old woman after the pair had been out for drinks in Nottingham city centre the same night after meeting through mutual friends.

The Nottinghamshire detective forced the security chain on the front door of the mother-of-one’s house, made his way upstairs and attacked his victim as she slept while her child was asleep in a nearby room last July.

At Derby Crown Court yesterday, Judge John Wait told Gray: “These are grave offences. You forced an entry into a home where your victim and her child were entitled to feel safe. You took advantage of her intoxication to rape her. She felt – and was – violated in her own home.”

The jury took less than three hours to convict Gray of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault. Judge Wait jailed him for eight years for rape, six years for attempted rape and four for sexual assault, to run concurrently.The victim told the court she could not recall much of their date despite only having three glasses of wine and lemonade and a “strong” vodka and Coke bought for her by Gray.

She said she was shocked when she got out of a taxi outside her home and saw Gray get out too. She invited him inside “through courtesy” before asking him to leave after 15 minutes because she was going to go to bed. He left through the back door, saying he was going to get a taxi at the top of the road.

She sobbed as she told the court her next recollection was of him being naked in her bed on top of her and raping her.

Sentencing the father of two, who had separated from his wife just a month before the attack, Judge Wait said: “You are intelligent and arrogant, you thought you would get away with it. You did not believe she would have the courage to complain or that if she did she would be believed.”

The officer, with more than 20 years’ service, will be removed from Nottinghamshire Police.

Judge Wait said: “I take account of your previous good record, your excellent service in sensitive roles within the police force and the high regard in which you were held by your colleagues.

“I take into account the fact that a sentence because of your profession will be harder for you to serve.”