Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A police officer bombarded a woman with hundreds of unwanted WhatsApp messages - years after they last spoke when she reported a crime.
Married Sergeant Syed Ali sent nearly 500 messages to the woman during a 10-week period from May last year, instigating contact with her for the first time in five years before sending her a stream of texts and a picture of a topless Asian female.
The woman initially did not recognise the 46-year-old defendant, of Monmouth Road, Dagenham, East London, but told him to stop messaging her once she discovered his identity as a police officer she had met previously.
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