Police officer found guilty of assaulting his partner
A Merseyside Police officer has been convicted of assaulting his partner.
The Crown Prosecution Service decided to prosecute Jack McGregor, 28, from the Sefton Area of Merseyside, even though the victim felt unable to support it.
A neighbour called the police to a house in Liverpool, in the early hours of 2 April 2024, after hearing a scream and a bang.
The police arrived twelve minutes later and activated their body worn cameras. The victim was tearful and clearly distressed. She was whispering to them and looking around, clearly afraid that McGregor would hear her.
She said she had gone to bed and awoke to hear McGregor playing loud music downstairs.
She asked him to turn it down but he wouldn’t and started calling her names and insulting her. She switched off the electricity supply.
He went outside and sat in his car and continued to play the music loudly. She was worried that the neighbours would be disturbed and she asked him again to switch the music off.
McGregor, who was then a serving police officer but was suspended at the time of the court hearing, was very drunk and refused. He snatched the victim’s phone and followed her back to the house where he shoved her onto the stairs. She fell and hit her head and screamed.
The victim told the police that she didn’t want to make a complaint as she was worried McGregor would lose his job and that she would “ruin his life”. She said he would be OK when he sobered up.
McGregor was arrested and taken to a police station and charged with assault. He pleaded not guilty at Chester Magistrates’ Court on 24 February 2025.
But following a trial at Crewe Magistrates’ Court on 24 July 2025, he was found guilty.
Despite the lack of a statement from the victim, the Crown Prosecution Service applied to have the police body worn footage from the scene at the time used as evidence.
The Judge agreed. Witnesses also gave evidence of what they had seen and heard. McGregor was fined £660 and must pay a £264 court surcharge and £650 in court costs.
Senior Crown Prosecutor Lynn Clark, of CPS Mersey-Cheshire, said: “The victim in this case did not feel able to support a prosecution but that is not a bar to proceedings.
“The Crown Prosecution Service will pursue what is called an “evidence-led prosecution” if the victim will not make a statement but it is in the public interest to take the case forward.
“While victims are rightly at the centre of everything we do, the CPS prosecutes on behalf of the Crown and for the good of the wider public.
“The footage from the time shows the victim is clearly distressed but also that her account of what happened is consistent and clear and correlates with what witnesses said.
“Jack McGregor was a serving police officer at the time and should have known better. The fact that he was heavily intoxicated is no excuse. The police, the courts and the CPS take domestic abuse extremely seriously and work together to bring the perpetrators to justice.”