5 Mar 2020

Female police officer describes pain from colleague's abuse

From Checkpoint, 5:44 pm on 5 March 2020

WARNING: Story includes graphic details of a sexual nature.

A female police officer has described waking up in pain as her colleague raped her in a Northland motel.

A video of the woman's police interview was played to the jury in her male colleague's trial in the Auckland District Court.

The man, who cannot be named, has pleaded not guilty to one charge of sexual violation and another of indecent assault.

RNZ court reporter Anneke Smith filed this report.