A POLICE officer has been cleared of indecently assaulting three colleagues.
Married Police Constable Gary Cryans, 51, was alleged to have carried out a number of assaults on three colleagues all in their 20s.
One woman claimed he assaulted her as she sat drunk in his car after a night out and tried to make her carry out a sex act on him.
Another said he tried to kiss her when they were on patrol, parked at a dark golf course. She rejected his advance.
The third alleged he pinned her down on a couch at a party and kissed her and touched her and made inappropriate comments while on shift together.
After a week-long trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court, Mr Cryans, a constable, was cleared of sexually assaulting the women.
He faced seven charges and lodged special defences of consent for four claiming he was having an affair with one woman and that another had been the one to kiss him.
The first woman denied they were in a relationship and told the jury she did not want him to do the things he did to her.
On a night out when she was said to be so drunk she needed help walking and fell asleep in his car she claimed she woke up somewhere she did not recognise.
The officer told the court he climbed on top of her and said he grabbed her hand and moved it towards his crotch but that she snatched it away.
She told the court she texted her colleague because it was "easier to go along with" how he was and accepted she told him she wanted them to go away on a plane together.
The second officer claimed Mr Cryans made a move on her while they worked together.
Procurator fiscal depute Laura Greer asked her what happened and the witness answered: "One night we were out in the car. We just parked up at the golf course one time and he tried to kiss me."
The woman told the jury she pushed Mr Cryans off and asked what he was doing.
The third officer told the court Mr Cryans – who has 11 years' police service – kissed her on a night out and touched her leg.
She also alleged that at another party he pinned her to the couch and kissed her again.
The officer told the court she voiced concern about working with Mr Cryans because she found him "creepy".
She alleged he drove her through dark roads saying he wanted to show her around and on one occasion parked at a golf course. As they sat in the car she claimed he told her "Nobody knows this place, nobody knows we're here. Anything could happen here and nobody would know".
She said she was so scared she almost pressed the button on her police radio for help.
The officer told the court how she was frightened to report the incidents and said: "You don't complain against the police, against another cop, it's just not the done thing."
In evidence, Mr Cryans said he had been having an affair with one of the women and everything that had happened was consensual. He also told the jury the second girl had kissed him on a night out. And he claimed everything said by the women were lies concocted to get him moved from the shift.
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