A POLICE officer has gone on trial accused of raping a drunk woman.

PC Stuart Jenkins, 38, sexually assaulted the alleged victim as she slept at her home, a court was told.

The defendant, of Springfield Road, Holcombe Brook, was a serving neighbourhood police officer with Greater Manchester Police at the time of the alleged incident.

A jury at Preston Crown Court was told the woman decided to come forward more than two years after the incident was alleged to have taken place as it had been playing on her mind.

She had not said anything earlier because she 'had been fighting a battle in her head' that the defendant had not meant to rape her, the judge was told.

The court heard how the woman had been asleep when she found the defendant on top of her as she lay face down. When she told him to get off, he stopped for a couple of minutes before allegedly starting again.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court: "I did not know what was going on.

“I knew it was wrong and I knew he should not be doing it to me.

"I felt sick, my heart was racing and I did not know what to do. I was just stuck.

"I did not want anything.

"I need to know that it happened because he wanted it to happen."

The court was told that extreme pornography had been found downloaded from two sites on Jenkins's computer.

Nick Kennedy, prosecuting, said: "Initially, the defendant was trying to make out that regular porn just bored him and that is why he looked at more extreme sites.

"He was in fact obtaining sexual satisfaction in doing to the complainant that which male adults had been doing to females in the course of those activities on those two websites."

Jenkins denies one count of rape.

(Proceeding)