Sex in cop car kinky? 'It's gross'

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A Christchurch prostitute who says a police officer extorted free sex from her was beaten by her partner after he found out she had a policeman client, a court has heard.

Defence counsel suggested yesterday the woman gave her relationship with former police officer Nathan Connolly a "slant" because she was afraid of her boyfriend and other prostitutes thinking she was a "nark".

Connolly is on trial before Justice French in the Christchurch High Court charged with obtaining a bribe and two counts of sex with consent induced by a threat.

The court has heard Connolly, 31, was a police constable when he used the woman's services between 2005 and 2007.

The Crown case is that in December 2006, Connolly, in his police car, stopped the woman as she was driving home from Manchester St and told her he could give her $1000 worth of tickets.

Rather than fine her, he took her into his patrol car and had sex with her.

He did not pay and continued to get free sex for almost a year, three times while in uniform and twice in his patrol car.

The woman, who has name suppression, has told the court she did not ask for payment when Connolly had sex with her in his patrol car as she was scared.

Under cross-examination from defence counsel Jonathan Eaton yesterday, the woman said she had been arrested for several offences stretching back to 1995.

Eaton suggested she made herself vulnerable to accusations of being an informant by having sex in a police car, and made up the story to protect herself.

The woman said her partner had been violent towards her when he found out she had a client who was a police officer.

She also had a fight with another prostitute, called Cheryl, over being a police informant after she was seen getting into Connolly's police car.

Under cross-examination, the woman said she would have been OK with the sex if Connolly had paid.

Eaton asked her, in light of suggestions she was a police informant: "Your slant had to change because you knew what [your boyfriend's] reaction would be?"

"Maybe," she replied.

Eaton asked whether she found having sex in a police car "kinky"?

"It's gross. I don't find nothing kinky about that at all, it's disgusting," she said.

The prostitute said she drove an unwarranted, unregistered car with a missing tail light to work while on a learner's licence.

She did not care about tickets, but she did care about losing her car.

Eaton asked whether she got the car repairs some weeks later after the vehicle was "green-stickered" – written off the road – by another officer.

"It had nothing to do with Nathan Connolly, did it?" Eaton asked.

"I don't know," she replied.