A POLICE officer “became an animal” as he raped a friend and “positively revelled in her discomfort”, a court has heard.

Pc Ravi Canhye, who serves with Dorset Police, is alleged to have slapped and bitten the woman before pinning her down and raping her.

He then threatened to abuse her with his truncheon and a vodka bottle, Winchester Crown Court has heard.

The 47-year-old, from Poole, is on trial facing two charges of rape, one count of attempted rape, three charges of assault of penetration and one of sexual assault against one woman.

These offences are alleged to have taken place between April 8 and 11 last year.

He also faces an offence of the sexual assault of a second woman on April 10, 2022.

Sarah Jones KC, prosecuting, told the court the complainant was a friend of the defendant’s who had previously considered a romantic relationship with him, but he had ruled this out.

She said that during the weekend in April, Canhye had drunk excessively and “become a completely” different person, and attacked his friend despite the pair having had consensual sex the night before.

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Ms Jones said: “This case concerns a period of time when this defendant span out of control.

“He has an issue with drinking and over this particular weekend he drank to excess.

“The alcohol changed him or simply disinhibited him to reveal the true side of him.

“He abused his friendship with one woman who had been nothing but kind and helpful to him.

“He was so wrapped up in his own needs and desires he saw both her and her friend as objects to use and abuse as he wanted.

“It brought him a sense of power or gratification and either he had no interest in what effect it had on these women, particularly his friend, or he positively revelled in seeing her disgust, her discomfort.

“He thought he could treat them both as he wanted.”

Ms Jones said that previously the friend had considered a relationship with Canhye.

She said: “She had been attracted to him before this weekend took place, she had thought about a romantic relationship with him because he was so polite all the time she had known him, so courteous, so empathetic to her feelings, she had thought there were no nice men in the world.”

The prosecutor added that when Canhye attacked the friend, she had become frightened and obeyed his orders.

Ms Jones said: “It came to a point where, she says, every time he was being too rough, when he was hurting her, that was exciting him and that made him worse at what he did.”

She added: “She considered he was behaving like an animal and that she considered him to be behaving like an animal seemed to drive him on more.”

Ms Jones told the court that the friend later managed to leave the defendant’s house but returned with a friend.

She said that out of concern that the defendant could enter a state of “detox” if he did not have alcohol, the first complainant went to the shop to buy him some drink.

Ms Jones said that while she was out, the second friend got a flannel and wiped the defendant’s face in a bid to cool him and calm him down.

She said the defendant then began performing a sex act in front of her and sexually assaulted her after putting his hand up her skirt.

Ms Jones described the complainants as “vulnerable” and added: “He used that vulnerability to degrade them to make himself feel more powerful and in control.”

Giving evidence, the first complainant said that she had trusted the defendant because he was a police officer.

She said: “He was a friend, I liked him, very polite, very courteous towards me, I trusted him as a friend, I also trusted him because he was a police officer. I did have some feelings but I didn’t vocalise them.”

The complainant said that when they had intercourse on the Friday night, Canhye was “kind and gentle” and the sex was consensual.

She said that the following day, Canhye suddenly attacked her by “forcefully” putting his hand down her trousers.

She said: “I turned round and he was just looking at me with a really aggressive-looking face.

“I said ‘What are you doing?’, I think he said ‘Shut up’ and that’s when it started. I told him to stop.”

She added: “I was frightened, his face was really grimacing, scary, really scary.

“He pulled me into the bedroom, I was trying to pull away but he was too strong for me, I am not very strong.

“He pushed me on to the bed, I was just really scared, frightened. He was really aggressive, he was really forceful, I have never seen him like that.”

The defendant denies all the charges and the trial continues.