Ian James Clarke, 48, was serving with North Wales' major crime team at the time of the sex attack in December 2015
A North Wales cop has been warned he faces a long prison stretch after he raped a sleeping woman while his police officer wife slept in the adjoining bedroom.
Ian James Clarke, 48, sat with his head bowed in the dock at Mold Crown Court today and looked shocked when the jury returned its guilty verdict.
At the time of the attack in December 2015 Clakre was serving with the major crime team in North Wales.
The court heard Clarke, who was also a reserve officer in the Territorial Army, believed he was “irresistible” to his victim and walked naked into the room where she was sleeping.
Clarke had denied one count of rape and tried to convince the jury his victim had consented to sex.
Judge Rhys Rowlands bailed Clarke, of St Peter’s Park in Northop, Mold, pending sentence next month.
“You have been convicted of a most serious offence of rape.
“Not only did you behave in a wholly disgraceful and immoral way that night, but you took advantage of a woman you thought was badly affected by drink.
“She was not,” the judge told him.
Judge Rhys Rowlands told him he should prepare himself for a prison sentence “of quite some length.”
The victim, a woman in her 40s, told the court how she had been out for a meal, and was staying at a property that night where Clarke and his wife were also staying.
During the night she said she felt the duvet lifting and she was pushed as if someone was getting into bed behind her.
She did not open her eyes, move or speak and initially, was not sure if she was dreaming.
Jurors head she remembered trying to roll away from him but he grabbed her, pulled her back and raped her while she cried.
After the 15 - 20 minute ordeal Clarke left the room and his victim fell asleep again.
The woman told the court while she had been drinking, what happened in the bed later felt as if “it was not quite reality”.
Prosecuting barrister Karl Scholz said the defendant and his wife were both police officers who had transferred from the Greater Manchester Police to North Wales in 2013.
He said the defendant would not have had a reasonable belief the woman was consenting.
Mr Scholz said Clarke had entered the bedroom naked and uninvited looking for sex while his wife slept in an adjoining bedroom.
The prosecutor said Clarke considered the complainant “up for it”, believed she would welcome his advances “no doubt based on an overblown view of himself that she could be unable to resist him.”
Bob Sastry, defending, told the jury his client’s case was the pair had consensual sex.
As part of his bail conditions Clarke must not approach the victim or enter the area where she lives.
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