Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith told Formby the incident in Bromley, south east London, in the early hours of September 19 last year ”inevitably means the end of your police career”.
The judge told Southwark Crown Court in London the 33-year-old woman, who had been drinking and had taken the legal drug BZP, was clearly ”vulnerable”.
”Your duty as a police officer was to treat her professionally,” he told Formby.
”Instead you both began flirting. There were at least four separate occasions when you should have stopped the situation developing any further.”
Michael Mulkerrins, prosecuting, told the court Formby was one of at least four officers who attended the victim’s house following a report of domestic abuse.
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Her boyfriend’s collection of various uniforms used in his job as a male stripper were on the floor in the living room, which ”heightened the sexual tension between them”, Mr Mulkerrins said.
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