A WOMAN claimed in court that a former Hereford policeman forced her to have sex with him when she was 15 – after she went to his home to look at his wedding photographs.

She also alleges that Alan Saffery had sex with her on a second occasion in 1986 after she went to his home to tell him she wanted him to leave her alone.

Saffery, now 61, of Spinney Grove, Hampton Dene, Hereford, denies two charges of raping her when she was under 16.

He also denies six charges of indecently assaulting another girl, who was aged between 12 and 15, between 1977 and 1981, and two allegations of having child porn images on his computer in 2013.

Speaking via a video link to Worcester Crown Court, the alleged victim of the two rape allegations said she went to look at Saffery’s wedding photos and presents soon after he got married but he gave her some orange squash and started kissing her.

Questioned by Jason Aris, defending, she agreed that her mother had phoned her to make sure she had arrived safely but Saffery had been standing right behind her with his hands round her waist, so she said nothing about feeling uncomfortable.

Asked why she went upstairs with him when she felt uncomfortable, she replied: “It was a flight or fright moment and I was frozen to what was happening.”

She said he told her to lie on the bed and added that he would not hurt her.

“I was feeling really scared,” she said.

She claimed that Saffery took off her clothes as she cried, adding: “I hated him for it.”

The woman also said she had been feeling suicidal and eventually went to his home again to ask him to leave her alone but he took her upstairs and forced himself upon her a second time.

She said Saffery had told her nobody would believe her if she said anything about what he was doing to her because he was a policeman and she was “just a girl”.

Under further questioning from Mr Aris, the woman said she first complained to police about Saffery in 1988 after running away from home and being found sleeping in the doors of Marks and Spencer.

She confirmed she later suffered mental health problems, including hallucinations about seeing angels.

She accepted she had told social services that she was stripped and touched by a group of boys in the woods when she was 11 or 12 and a report in 1997 referred to a claim by her that a doctor had made sexual advances towards her, although he was never prosecuted.

She also agreed with Mr Aris that, around 2010, she complained that her husband was trying to poison her by interfering with her medication.

But she said she now accepted that had not happened and that she imagined it because she was not taking her anti-psychotic medication at the time.

Mr Aris suggested that any belief she might have about impropriety between her and Saffery was because she imagined or hallucinated it.

But she replied that, at the age of 15, she did not have mental health problems.

She said what Saffery had done “scarred” her for life and made her become mentally ill.

The trial continues.