Overview

• Sheffield Crown Court jailed Wasim Bashir, 55, for misconduct in public office, with reports citing a term of two years and three months or two years and four months.
• Bashir was working in West Yorkshire Police’s Kirklees safeguarding team when he began a sexual relationship with a 22-year-old who had reported a sexual assault in 2020.
• He contacted her days after taking her statement, met her for coffee, and the relationship followed before later ending when she started seeing someone else.
• The woman later discovered photos of them on an adult swingers website presented as a couple, confronted him, and he apologized and said he would delete them.
• He has since retired from the force and was cleared of a separate misconduct charge alleging inappropriate contact with two other women, as the victim told the court she felt manipulated by someone she should have been able to trust.