A paedophile police officer accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in the back seat of his car told jurors: ‘She seemed to be enjoying it.’

Ian Naude, 30, a PC with Cheshire Police, picked the girl up from her home while her mother was out and drove her to a quiet country lane, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

The father-of-one told the girl to ‘call me daddy’ because it got him ‘excited’, he told the jury.

Ian Naude is allegedly a ‘committed paedophile’ who is ‘obsessed’ with taking the virginity of teenage girls (Picture: Getty)

He then allegedly raped her in the back seat of his car as he took photos and videos on his mobile phone.


Naude admitted 31 offences relating to grooming young girls by exchanging sexual messages and images through a fake persona he invented on Facebook.



And he admits a charge of sexual activity with the 13-year-old child he met in person.

But he maintains she had consented to sex and denies rape and sexual assault.

Naude, originally from South Africa, who served in Afghanistan with the Royal Irish Regiment, had been called to her house over a domestic incident in October 2017.

He targeted the girl on Facebook (Picture: Getty)

Afterwards, his supervisor warned him the girl had been ‘flirty’. But he then looked her up on Facebook.

Three days later, after exchanging sexual images and messages, he picked her up in his car, the jury heard.

Naude, of Market Drayton, Shropshire, said: ‘I had one hand free and was using that to take photos and videos as we were making out.

‘She seemed to be enjoying it. She had her arms around me and she told me she loved me.

‘She said “I have to go” before her mum wonders where she is.’

He dropped her near her home then popped into Crewe Police Station, and sent her a selfie asking if she had had a good time, the court heard.

A police investigation, started after the teenager reported the alleged assault to her family, discovered it was the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of Naude’s offending.

Police found that while at the end of his Army career and as an ‘aspiring policeman’, Naude targeted other girls by posing as a 15-year-old boy called Jake Green on Facebook.

He would persuade his victims to undress and sometimes perform sexual acts on camera before sending them pictures and videos of himself masturbating.

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It is alleged Naude is a ‘committed paedophile’ who is ‘obsessed’ with taking the virginity of teenage girls and had regularly been targeting youngsters on the internet.

But Naude denied he joined the police in April 2017 ‘to gain the keys to a sweet shop’ by meeting vulnerable girls through his job.

‘I joined because I wanted to help people. I wanted to make a difference,’ he told the court.

The trial continues.

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