Trial begins for ex-police officer accused of rape and sexual touching
A former NSW Police officer is on trial for allegedly sexually touching three younger male colleagues and sexually assaulting one of them before resigning from the force.
Matthew Stephen Cameron, a 33-year-old former NSW Police officer, has commenced a trial for ten charges of sexual offences against three younger male colleagues. Allegations of alleged sexual touching and sexual assault date back to December 2021 and are said to have continued into April 2023. At the start of the District Court trial on Monday, the Crown prosecutor stated that Cameron touched the genital areas of his younger colleagues without their consent during or after social gatherings.
Cameron, who resigned from the force, maintains that all interactions with the three men were consensual. The court heard that Cameron, a gay man acting as the gay liaison officer, was accused of sexual acts with heterosexual men. Five of the charges relate to one alleged victim, with the incident occurring after a March 2022 social event, where Cameron allegedly touched the man's penis while the man was intoxicated and unconscious. The alleged offences also took place at a campsite in 2022 and a private home in late 2022.
The jury trial is expected to last three weeks, with the alleged victims' testimony being heard in a closed court.
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