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Paul Morgan suffered the bribery of actuality arrested by his own colleagues afterwards actuality accused of abduction by a woman he met on Plenty of Fish
When seven plain-clothes admiral accustomed at PC Paul Morgan’s bungalow at midnight and woke him up, he didn’t apperceive what on apple was activity on.
‘I knew it was austere because they were actuality at midnight, but I didn’t accept a clue why,’ he says. ‘I bethink sitting on the daybed in my bathrobe gown, thinking: “Have I done article amiss at work?”
‘Then one said: “We’re arresting you on suspicion of rape.” I aloof bethink that babble “rape” and thinking, “Oh Jesus”.’
Paul, 52, from Llangennech, South Wales, was beside himself. A man who accurately ethics his reputation, he played rugby for his country as a teenager, becoming a courage accolade for putting his activity on the band to accomplishment a woman from a river, and was a abominably admired administrator whose adherence to assignment was unwavering.
He was a bounded hero until, three years ago, he met 44-year-old Samantha Murray-Evans on the dating website Plenty of Fish and had a now much-regretted one-night stand.
This month, Swansea Crown Cloister heard how Murray-Evans falsely cried rape, alike admitting she’d bombarded him with abject argument letters and pictures of her breasts afterwards that aboriginal and alone date. Indeed, she’d alike angry up on his doorstep uninvited, and proceeded to grab him in an affectionate place.
There could be little agnosticism she capital to abide the fling, yet aback Paul spurned her, she accused him of rape.
Samantha Murray-Evans was confined for 27 months afterwards accusing the adventurous badge administrator of raping her
‘Rape is the everyman of the low,’ he says. ‘It’s worse than annihilation in my view. And actuality was addition tarring me with one of the affliction things you can tar addition with.’
Paul can’t accompany himself to accredit to Murray-Evans by name. His fiancée Debbie Powell, whom he fell in adulation with a year later, calls her ‘the low-life’. Says Paul: ‘That’s what her name is in this house. She is not a nice person.’
Judge Paul Thomas QC was added absolute aback he bedevilled Murray-Evans to 27 months in bastille for accustomed out acts intending to debauchee the advance of justice.
‘It is difficult to anticipate of a abundant added abandoned lie than to allege addition of rape,’ he said, afore analogue how her ‘planned, assiduous and callous’ lies had broke PC Paul Morgan’s career.
Paul Morgan, pictured with fiancee Debbie Powell at home in Llangennech, Wales, was falsely accused of abduction by a Swansea mother he met on a dating site
Today, he charcoal acutely afflicted by three years of ‘sheer hell’. He relies on anti-depressants, has advised suicide and will never be able to acknowledgment to frontline policing. He’s been diagnosed with post-traumatic accent and is still on ailing leave.
‘When she [Murray-Evans] was here, she asked what that was,’ he says, gesturing to the affected courage accolade on his windowsill. ‘I told her how I got it. It was alarm night. Cold. Minus nine. A changeable had been apparent in the river.
The river was in abounding flood and I could see her face-down, floating, about 100 yards away. I managed to get into the baptize and fabricated my way up to her. It was chest abysmal and awfully cold.
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‘[At those temperatures] your anatomy starts to shut down. Your animation goes as if you’re sprinting. You’re hyperventilating — but I managed to get her out. The detective constable who came to advice me was the buck who came to arrest me for abduction a year later.
‘When your character’s actuality questioned like that, you’re thinking, “Hell, that [he nods afresh at the certificate] is the array of actuality I do. That’s who I am. What’s accident to me now is unbelievable.”’
The babble ‘unbelievable’ crops up time and afresh throughout this interview, as able-bodied it might. For, admitting Paul’s irreproachable character, admitting the battery of absolute texts Murray-Evans had beatific argumentation for addition animal encounter, Paul was arrested, put in a cell, subjected to a base medical assay and abeyant from assignment while on bail.
‘They booty your accreditation agenda off you,’ says Paul. ‘They took my abridged anthology as well. You can’t get any worse.
‘Three canicule into it, the Badge Federation adumbrative larboard me a bulletin saying, “Paul, there’s activity to be a columnist absolution in the affidavit but they’re not allotment you.”
‘I was abominably aggravating to get authority of him. I had the affirmation this had never happened. What the hell was activity on? The alone affair I could anticipate to do was annihilate myself.
‘In the garage, I had a dejected braiding I’d acclimated to cut bottomward a tree. I was activity to adhere myself. I brought the braiding into the sitting allowance and sat there.’ He credibility to the daybed beside the log-burning stove.
‘From the window I could see my parents’ abode up on the acropolis with the lights on. I thought: “Hold on, I’ve got my parents alive. If I do this, it will abort them.”
‘I backward up all night with that braiding on the floor. In the morning it was front-page account but it didn’t name me. It aloof said “Carmarthenshire badge officer”.
Paul Morgan, pictured actuality with his fiancee Debbie Powell, says he was devastated by apocryphal accusations of rape
‘I went to appointment my parents. Admitting everything, they anticipation I was still at work. I’d been putting on my compatible beneath my coat, activity up there for a cup of tea then, adage it was a night shift, cogent them: “Right, I’m off to assignment now”.
‘Mum asked me: “Who’s this buck who’s been answerable with animal assault?” I told her I didn’t know.’
Such was Paul’s humiliation, that it took him two years to admit in his parents. Indeed, for months he didn’t acquaint a body he’d been arrested for rape. Coming from a ancestors of policemen — his ancestor was a administrator and his brother a arch ambassador — the abasement was too dreadful.
When Paul abutting the dating website, he was 49, distinct and abominably lonely. As a adolescent man he’d played rugby for Wales and Swansea afore arena for Wollongong University, abreast Sydney, Australia. Aged 30, he alternate to Wales to accompany the badge force.
‘I never capital to commit,’ he says now. ‘Then you ability an age breadth you aback realise you’re on your own.
‘I formed accouterment so alone had one weekend off in about five. I was actual abandoned on my canicule off. My highlight was activity to the bounded boutique and accepting a babble with someone.’
Paul had been on the website for six months aback Samantha Murray-Evans contacted him and they began texting. Afterwards six weeks, she appropriate meeting.
‘The texts were abounding of innuendo. She said she capital to appear actuality because of what she capital to do to me. I should never accept arrive her into the abode and we should never accept had a animal accord but …’ He clears his throat.
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Murray-Evans accustomed at 3pm on October 13.
‘She started on me sexually as anon as she came through the door. She was absolutely active in that way. I accept it was thrilling. You accept to remember, I anticipation she was a nice person.
‘Afterwards we watched some TV, chatted and she larboard at 6pm. I anticipate I’d said I capital to do a bit of training.’
Paul about had time to change into his sports accessory afore the aboriginal bulletin from Murray-Evans arrived. Best of it is unprintable in a ancestors newspaper. Suffice to say, the animal appointment fabricated her ‘toes curl’, was ‘awesome’ and she had ‘the bigger smirk’ on her face.
Paul Morgan was accustomed a courage accolade afterwards he adored a woman from drowning, but was captivated in a corpuscle for 24 hours and abeyant for bristles weeks aback he faced abduction accusations
She messaged afresh at 6.26pm allurement if they could accommodated the afterward afternoon. Four sexually absolute texts followed, including a photograph of her breasts. At 2.29am, she asked if he was awake. By 8am she was spelling out her animal fantasies.
‘I hadn’t apparent the messages. Then, at 9.30am she angry up at the door. I thought, “Oh God, what’s activity on here?”
She said she’d larboard her arena in the bathroom, so I told her she’d bigger appear in. Afresh she affective me amid my legs and said: “This is what I came her for.”
‘I said: “That’s a little bit intrusive” and I asked her to leave. I was aggravating to be as nice as I could, but I was scared.’
Worse was to come. At 2.16pm she texted: ‘I would like to see you again. I anticipation we clicked. Coffee only, mine, 3pm.’ Paul didn’t reply.
Within three hours, Murray-Evans had bombarded him with six abandoned letters accusing him, amidst added things, of actuality a ‘sexual predator’.
But by 5.46pm, her affection had changed: ‘I say things in acrimony I don’t beggarly aback I’m hurt.’ And, at 5.48pm: ‘I accept bipolar, it gets the bigger of me at times.’
Failing to move him, she afresh began to bung abuse.
‘God did I accomplish the appropriate decision, you are one absorbing person,’ he texted back.
‘There we are afresh bye,’ she responded.
‘Yup bye,’ he messaged back, acquisitive it was the aftermost he’d apprehend of her.
The abutting night, at 11.40pm, seven admiral from Dyfed Powys Professional Standards Department, which investigates accessible complaints about badge personnel, accustomed to arrest him.
‘I told them I hadn’t raped her. I showed them the texts on my phone. But whatever I said was immaterial. This is a rural area. There isn’t abundant badge corruption. Aback they had an administrator accused of abduction and they had to booty me in.
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‘It’s not acrimony [I felt], but abhorrence — and humiliation. I knew best of the officers. I’d been on a CID advance with the changeable aegis baker 15 years afore but the alone actuality who was affectionate was the doctor who advised me.
‘They booty swabs from your privates, beard cuttings from your privates, beard cuttings from your head. They booty $.25 of your fingernails, they …’ He avalanche silent.
‘They kept me in the corpuscle until they interviewed me at 8pm the afterward night. You abatement comatose for 20 account and deathwatch up and think: “Is this my bedroom? Christ it’s not. I’m in a badge cell.”
‘You try to cull yourself together. You’ve got to go over the facts in an interview, but I don’t assurance these people.
‘I’ve apparent them the affirmation and they’ve arrested me. Are they activity to abolish the texts? I thought: “You apperceive I haven’t done this. Why are we activity bottomward this route?”’ However, Paul now knows — as do a growing cardinal of innocent men — that it is the affair of accord which is difficult.
‘I didn’t realise until the adviser advising me said you’ve got about to accept a arrangement accounting out and active for it to be absolute that the woman consented.
‘But I acquainted I had alike bigger than that, because I had her texts the afterward day adage she had. I couldn’t accept why the case wasn’t actuality befuddled out.
‘Once I got home, I’d be watching TV and for a breach additional would get into the programme and alpha adequate myself. But afresh you think, “What are you doing? You’re on bond for rape”. There’s never a moment that it goes away.’
Paul was an affecting bones when, bristles weeks afterwards his arrest, he was assuredly told there would be no added action.
‘I went bottomward to the bounded pub and kept afraid on Billy Joel’s I’m An Innocent Man [on the jukebox], but the accident had been done. Twice I’ve been walking about aback somebody’s shouted out “Rapist!”. The account charge accept spread. I aloof backpack on walking.
‘But it affects you. You can’t sleep. You can’t anticipate straight. At night, I started cutting my teeth so abominably that I sheared a tooth in half.’ Aback Paul eventually confided in his parents aftermost year, they were abiding in their support.
‘Dad’s taken up painting in his retirement, so I went to his art flat at the house. He couldn’t accept what I’d been put through. Anytime back then, he’s offered his abutment every footfall of the way. They’ve both been awesome.’
Paul was in cloister this ages to see Murray-Evans, a mother-of-two from Swansea, bawl as she was bedevilled to jail. Paul himself gave a victim appulse account adage how the affliction ‘will break with me for the blow of my life’.
Shockingly, admitting the cutting affirmation adjoin Murray-Evans, the investigating admiral did not accompany a case adjoin her for falsely arrant abduction until Paul insisted aloft it.
In 2015, she voluntarily abounding a badge account but an amazing two years delayed afore they took any added activity adjoin her. In August this year, she was appropriate to appear the magistrates’ court, breadth the case was referred to the Crown Court.
‘The badge aloof capital the accomplished affair to go away,’ Paul says. ‘But hell if I was activity to let that happen. I didn’t affliction about her sentence. I cared that assuredly addition was cogent her she’d been artful and apathetic and I hadn’t done annihilation wrong.
‘I don’t appetite bodies to stop actuality bedevilled of abduction but addition has got to accelerate out a bulletin that these women can’t aloof go annular accusing people.
‘This isn’t over for me. It’s afflicted my activity for ever.’
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