A former police officer has admitted sharing intimate photos of a woman on social media without her consent.

Simon Sewell, a former constable from the Kirklees area of ​​West Yorkshire Police, is currently facing a serious misconduct hearing for 12 offenses of breaching the standard of police conduct between June 2020 and May 2023.

On Wednesday, the hearing was told he had shared photographs of crime scenes, made disparaging comments about the account of a woman who claimed she had been raped and accessed police records without a lawful purpose.

Mr Sewell, who has since resigned from the force, admitted all the offenses but claimed he acted under duress.

He was not present at the start of his hearing at West Yorkshire Police headquarters in Wakefield on Wednesday, where he was heard to claim that the woman he shared the intimate photos with, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pressured him to do police checks . databases.

He only sent photos of crime scenes and his workplace because she demanded to know where he was, according to his lawyer Peter Gilmour.

Mr Sewell claimed the woman could not be identified in the explicit photos he uploaded, although she denied this.

Holding back tears, she told hearings she was “haunted” by the thought she would never know what images of her were “out there”.

Asked why he shared a photo of a man in custody with her and asked if she thought he looked like him, Mr Sewell told investigators it was a “silly bank”.

He also sent her a photo of a bloody cot from the scene of an attempted murder “to prove he was busy and potentially working late”.

The same explanation was given for why he shared a photo of the alleged victim of a sex crime in March 2023 and said she had falsified the allegations and changed her story.

Simon Mallett, a spokesman for West Yorkshire Police, said Mr Sewell’s explanations were “implausible”.

Ms A told the hearing she “never asked for any information about his work to be shared in detail”.

She denied trying to control his behavior and added: “He’s saying these things to try to justify what he’s done.”

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said Mr Sewell had not been charged with any offence.

The commission is expected to decide whether Mr Sewell is guilty of serious misconduct, meaning he could be banned from policing in future, on Friday.

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