Swinging detective

Barred from police, officer who sold group sex sessions

A DETECTIVE who sold sex to strangers along with his paramedic partner was found guilty of gross misconduct yesterday.

DC Nicholas Taylor and Eleanor Turner ran their £450,000 home like a brothel, with strangers arriving for threesomes, a misconduct panel was told.

Taylor, 41, resigned a day before the hearing – and was yesterday told he would have been sacked from West Midlands Police if he had not quit.

A senior officer with 19 years’ experience, he was exposed in a newspaper investigation in 2020 after offering an undercover reporter a threesome with his lover, 29, for £150 an hour at their home near Telford, Shropshire.

Chairman of the misconduct panel, Harry Ireland, said: ‘We found that this conduct was discreditable and likely to undermine public confidence in the police given that he had committed a criminal act in acting as a prostitute.’

The Sun had revealed how the pair called themselves ‘Mark and Courtney’ while advertising for sex on website AdultWork, even offering to meet clients away from their home for an extra £40.

Taylor reportedly admitted to being in the ‘public sector’ and said clients ranged from 21 to 70. He added: ‘We get naked, we play and they join in.’

The shamed detective claimed bosses were being ‘prudish’ and that he had not brought his force into disrepute. He insisted his activities were simply ‘an expression of his sexual identity’. However, Mr Ireland said the ruling was not a ‘moral judgment’ but that ‘condemnation arises from his seeking payment on the publicly accessible internet for sexual services’.

Taylor was not present or represented at the disciplinary hearing at force headquarters in Birmingham. But he had earlier argued: ‘I didn’t see myself as a police officer selling sexual services... I was wrong and I apologise for it.’

He was found to have committed gross misconduct by bringing the force into disrepute, and breaching standards of professional behaviour by failing to declare a business interest. He was also barred from working in policing. The hearing was told that Taylor posted pictures of himself online that were ‘traceable to who he was’. A source told the newspaper in 2020: ‘It doesn’t bear thinking about how many huge operations he has risked compromising.’

Taylor was suspended on full pay after his sordid activities emerged.

He was already on a final written warning for shredding statements in a witness intimidation case.

Police questioned him on suspicion of ‘assisting in the management of a brothel’ but decided not to proceed with a criminal investigation.

‘Acting as a prostitute’