'Babe, would I date a girl with this record?'

A POLICEMAN appeared in court yesterday and admitted sending his partner another woman's criminal record. Sergio Henriques used the police report about Lisa Gill, whom he had stopped a year earlier for drink-driving, to discredit claims that they were having an affair.

It was a bid, the court heard, to save his relationship with a widow whom he had met while he was a family liaison officer.

The court also heard that in 2004 he had disclosed information about PC Claire Bourgaize, whom he had been seeing at around the time his relationship with Jayne Lane started.

This, the court heard, had been to discredit false rumours that he had made his colleague pregnant.

PC Henriques, 35, of 112, Victoria Road, St Peter Port, denied having twice in 2004 misused police computers to access secure information relating to PC Bourgaize and disclosing that information to Mrs Lane.

He also denied accessing Miss Gill's file illegally, claiming to have done so only professionally.

'This is an officer who got himself into a mess in his personal life with women whom he met in the course of his duties and. . . he misused police information to persuade Mrs Lane not to end the relationship,' said prosecutor Gary Perry.

In November 2004, PC Henriques allegedly dropped through Mrs Lane's letterbox a police report about a crash earlier that year in which PC Bourgaize and her brother, Craig, had been involved as passengers.

PC Bourgaize's brother had lied to police that he had been driving - another man had been behind the wheel at the time - but the court heard that Mr Bourgaize had later admitted the true version of events.

Mrs Lane told the court that PC Henriques used the report to convince her that PC Bourgaize was capable of lying to police about the crash and was therefore capable of lying about being pregnant by him.

The court heard that Mrs Lane had subsequently destroyed the files, at PC Henriques' request.

Advocate Sarah Brehaut, defending, told the court that PC Bourgaize had not lied about the circumstances surrounding the crash and Mrs Lane was able to share with investigators knowledge of it was because she had been with PC Henriques when PC Bourgaize telephoned him shortly after the incident, asking for advice.

Giving evidence in court, Mrs Lane said that she could not recall that telephone conversation and PC Bourgaize denied it had ever taken place.

Investigators discovered, the court heard, that PC Henriques accessed the report about the incident on two separate occasions and had last year again researched Miss Gill's convictions.

Mr Perry alleged that when PC Henriques had disclosed Miss Gill's previous convictions to Mrs Lane, he annotated them with: 'Babe, do you think I would see someone with all these convictions?'

Miss Gill told the court that she had met the defendant about a year after he had stopped her for drink-driving.

The court heard that their relationship had not been sexual, but that PC Henriques had met her on several occasions while on duty and had once given her a lift home in his patrol car, arranging to pick her up in an area of Town where there was no CCTV.

Mr Perry read out several text messages from PC Henriques' mobile telephone to Miss Gill's, which were of a 'flirty' nature.

The defendant denied the relationship and explained that he had printed out Miss Gill's police report because Mrs Lane had become aware of an apparent relationship between him and Miss Gill.

'I was not thinking straight at the time and what I did was wrong,' he told the court.

The defendant said that he had been depressed and felt that he could retrieve the relationship.

The court heard that PC Henriques first met Mrs Lane in 2003, in his capacity as family liaison officer following the death of her husband.

When a relationship began in April 2004, he had ceased to act as an FLO.

A verdict on the not-guilty-plea cases is expected today.