Glen Coleman’s accuser testifies in court

A few days after the interview, the woman said she met Coleman in a park in western Sydney after he asked if they could discuss her complaint somewhere other than the police station.

As it began to rain, they went to his police car, where Coleman said: “I have an offer for you,” the woman told Nightingale.

“He said, ‘I’ll give you $500 to have sex with me’… I was shocked… I said ‘Aren’t you married?’ and he said, “That doesn’t mean I love my wife any less; “$500 is a lot of money.”

The woman said she declined the offer of sex and an erotic dance. He then cupped her breasts inside her clothing, grabbed her genitals outside her clothing and began rubbing himself, she said.

“I kept asking if I could leave…he kept touching me,” she said.

“I didn’t think I could leave without asking… He was a police officer.”

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When asked by Nightingale why she felt she had to ask him to leave, the woman replied: “Because I felt like I was doing something wrong and I wanted to leave… I didn’t know what to do. ” I’m freezing.”

She thought she had finally found someone who believed her about her ex-boyfriend.

“I needed something to get me out of it; It was not for nothing that I planned to re-traumatize myself,” she told the jury.

The woman said days later she met Coleman again in his police car because she still needed his help with her ex-boyfriend, and he allegedly put his hands down her pants and made lewd comments.

“I felt really disgusting, I froze. I hated it,” she said, adding that she finally agreed to show him her breasts because she wanted to leave.

She said Coleman pulled her underwear aside and said, “It’s great.”

“What he said makes me completely uncomfortable. It’s really disgusting and I don’t like it; it’s terrible,” she told the court.

Nightingale previously told jurors they would hear evidence that Coleman allegedly raped the woman in an interview room after putting $70 on the desk and telling her she could leave after they had sex.

Coleman pleaded not guilty to three counts of sexual intercourse without consent, six counts of sexual touching without consent and one count of abusing his position in public office to obtain the woman for his own sexual gratification.

He was arrested on May 12, eight days after the investigation began. The woman had asked her friend’s parents, who were police officers, for advice about one of Coleman’s Snapchat messages that allegedly offered money for sex. She was asked to report this to the police.

Coleman’s defense attorney, Joel Brook, said in court that his client denied “ever sexually touching or having sexual intercourse with the plaintiff without her free or intentional consent.”

He said Coleman had refused to abuse his position in public office to the extent he was accused of.

NSW Police confirmed Coleman was discharged from the force on September 5, 2022.

The trial before Judge Robert Montgomery continues.