An off-duty police officer pulled down a young woman’s top and photographed her breasts during a night out, a jury at Leeds Crown Court has been told.

The woman, who was 18 at the time, told detectives in a video interview played in court how South Yorkshire Police officer Paul Hinchcliffe later messaged her saying “God, I’d do you”, with sexually explicit emojis.

In the interview played at Court on Tuesday, the woman described how she and the defendant, who was then 43, were in a group drinking at a Wetherspoons pub in Wath-upon-Dearne, in South Yorkshire, on October 3, 2020.

She said: “It didn’t start off strange. I think the first odd thing was when he made comments about my bum and said ‘every time you get up to the toilet, I’ve had a look’.”

She told the detectives that Hinchcliffe later took a photograph of her wearing her glasses and showed everyone else, saying: “I’m going to have a w**k to that tonight.”

The woman described how the defendant started flicking foam from the top of his beer on to her glasses, which she first thought was “a laugh”.

But then she added: “He was throwing it down my boobs. Then he got his phone and kind of pulled my top open and took a picture down my top.”

She told the interviewing officers that the defendant was making noises as he flicked the foam at her and she said: “I think he was making reference to ejaculating on my chest.”

The woman said Hinchcliffe told the group he was going to send the picture to his friend who could not make it out that night.

The woman, who lived with her parents, described how she went back to an empty house and “I just absolutely cried my eyes out – I was absolutely hysterical”.

She said she got WhatsApp messages from Hinchcliffe that night with a picture of her accompanied by “w**king emojis”.

She said one message said: “God I’d do you, is that bad?”

The woman said she replied: “Yes, it is.”

She said he told her: “Sorry, I’m just drunk.”

The woman described how another police officer with Hinchcliffe that night was also acting inappropriately, including putting his hand on her thigh.

She said this officer told her she reminded him of his daughter, to which Hinchcliffe responded: “You don’t tell birds they remind you of your daughter.”

Asked about how the conversation began, the woman told the detectives that the group was talking about her plans for a “boob job”.

She said she had mentioned she had a “chest like a 12-year-old” and Hinchcliffe had said: “You’ve got a bum like a 12-year-old.”

The woman told the officers: “I feel like I don’t want to go out in low-cut top and leather trousers any more.

“I don’t want people looking at my bum all the time. I don’t want people looking at my boobs.

“At the same time I feel guilty. I don’t know why. I feel like I could’ve said something at the time.

“I feel like, ‘what if he thought I wanted him to do these things’.”

Hinchcliffe, now 46, who had a role training police officers at the time, denies one charge of sexual assault.

Louise Reevell, prosecuting, told the jury how the defendant presented a prepared statement at one of his police interviews denying he had assaulted the woman by pulling down her top and photographing her breasts.

In the statement, he said the group had been discussing the woman’s “boob job” when she opened up her top and pulled it down to show her cleavage.

He said she consented to him taking a photograph.

The officer, who lives in Wath, said in his statement it was something “everyone found hilarious”.

The trial continues on Wednesday.