Jeremy Fowleer is on trial for carryiing out a sex attack on a trainee (Picture: WNS)

A policeman carried out a sex attack on a trainee as a ‘prank’ in front of other officers at their parade room, a court heard today.

PC Jeremy Fowler, 40, is accused of thrusting his fingers inside the man’s backside after he was rugby-tackled in their station.

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A court heard the alleged victim was thrown to the floor in a bear hug after being taunted over his choice of T-shirt.

PC Fowler is then accused of unbuckling his trousers to assault him by sticking his hand down the front of his underpants.


Prosecutor Ian Wright said: ‘He recalls feeling a hand going down his trousers and reaching his scrotum, further still to his buttocks, parting his buttocks and then fingers being inserted into his anus repeatedly.’



Mr Wright said the victim – who cannot be named – felt ‘shame and degradation’ during the assault witnessed by a room full of officers at Merthyr Tydfil police station in South Wales.

Swansea Crown Court heard the alleged victim was a community support officer training to be a PC at the time.

The court heard he had entered the station’s parade room with his supervisor while in plain clothes and in a t-shirt reading ‘replay’.

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Another officer, PC Matthew Davies, allegedly said to the trainee: ‘It’s not replay, it’s: “You’re a f***ing reject”.’

PC Davies, who Mr Wright said was known for his ‘rugby club-type banter’, is said to have rushed at the trainee and tackled him to the floor in a ‘hug’.

While pinned down the trainee claims his belt was unbuckled and he was assaulted by someone else.

After he got up, he claims PC Fowler was holding two fingers in the air, shoving them.in fellow officer’s faces saying: ‘Sniff them, sniff that. He’s a dirty b******.’

Mr Wright said: ‘He was humiliated.’

Mr Wright said the trainee kept the assault a secret for more than a year before rumours reached a sergeant who confronted him about it.

PC Fowler is said to have told superiors he merely rubbed the trainee’s hair and face while PC Davies held him to the floor as a ‘bit of fun.’

PC Fowler, from Brecon, Powys, denies sexual assault. The trial continues.