Police officer, 40, accused of kissing a woman’s breast while responding to domestic incident is cleared of sexual assault

• The police officer had been called to search for the woman’s abusive ex-partner
• The officer said DNA may have been on her breast because she shook his hand

A Metropolitan Police officer has been cleared of sexually assaulting a woman while responding to domestic incident.

Pc Fabian Aguilar-Delgado, 40, was accused of kissing, groping and sucking the woman’s breast while in full uniform on a call-out to her home.

He told a jury he was ‘disgusted’ by the allegations and claimed that his DNA may have ended up on her breast because she shook his hand.

The Spanish-born officer, who worked as cabin crew for Ryanair and Norwegian Airlines before joining the Met in 2019, denied a single count of sexual assault on May 24 2020.

Mr Aguilar-Delgado, who was suspended by the Met, was acquitted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday.

(Stock Image) A Metropolitan Police Officer has been cleared of sexually assaulting a woman after being called to her home to search for her abusive ex-partner

The woman told the jury that the officer French-kissed her, put his hands down her top and sucked her breast after offering to search her house for her abusive ex-partner while his colleague was in the car outside.

The court heard that Mr Aguilar-Delgado’s DNA was later found on swabs on the woman’s right nipple and breast.

Giving evidence last week, he said he was ‘shocked’ and thought it was ‘impossible’ when he was first told about the discovery.

Asked how he thought his DNA got onto the woman’s breast, the Pc said he had been close to her ‘talking loudly’ and ‘maybe spitting or coughing’, as well as ‘touching handles’ in her house in Croydon, south London.

He also suggested the transfer may have been as a result of her shaking his hand.

He said: ‘She came out to say thank you to everyone. She was trying to shake hands. She tried to put her hand into the police car and she grabbed my hand.

‘It wasn’t like a normal handshake. She just grabbed it.

‘She really wanted to shake hands. She was looking for it.’

Southwark Crown Court heard that the officer was ‘disgusted’ by the allegations and claimed that his DNA may have ended up on her breast because she shook his hand

The officer said that his hands were ‘sweaty’ because it was a hot day and he had been biting his fingernails.

A video of a reconstruction of the alleged handshake was played in court and Mr Aguilar-Delgado showed his chewed-down nails to the jury.

‘I remember that she went back and I don’t know if she touched herself to pull her top up,’ he said.

The officer also said the woman was under the influence of alcohol when he spoke to her at her home and at one point she raised her voice and told him to ‘f*** off’.

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