A FORMER police community support officer has been jailed for ten years for the rape of a 12-year-old schoolgirl.
Michael Yardley, who was employed by Lincolnshire Police as part of a neighbourhood policing team, had a seven-month secret affair with the youngster before coming under suspicion when his shocked wife Stephanie caught them cuddling on the sofa of their home.
Andrew Scott, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court on Friday that Yardley had got up early telling his wife he was going for a run but when she later went downstairs she was left stunned by she saw.
Yardley (35), of Haconby Lane, Morton, admitted raping the girl on October 27, 2010, when she was 12 and four charges of sexual activity with a young girl between November 2010 and April last year.
He was jailed for ten years and placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.
Full story in Tuesday’s Lincolnshire Free Press.