Detective found guilty of raping woman, 43, in her own home after she turned him down following date

A police detective sergeant has been found guilty of raping a 43-year-old mother in her home. The officer shook his head in the dock as a jury at Derby Crown Court took less than three hours to convict Trevor Gray of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault. The victim had told the court she had been unable to confront Gray, 47, because her young child was also in the house at the time. Gray, from Nottingham, had been suspended from Nottinghamshire Police pending the outcome of the investigation into the attack at a house in Nottingham last July. The court heard that he forced the security chain on the front door of his victim’s house, then made his way upstairs and attacked her as she slept. Minutes earlier, Gray had sent a text message to the woman from the street outside, which read 'You are harsh', after she asked him to leave so she could go to bed. Derby Crown Court was told Gray had 'plainly intended' to have sex with the woman and she had 'upset' his plans. The pair, who met through mutual friends, had been out for drinks earlier that evening before sharing a cab. But the victim, a mother-of-one, said she was 'shocked' when Gray also got out of the taxi at her modern £200,000 home in an upmarket suburb of Nottingham.