Ben Poole has been on trial this week on three charges of sexual assault against two women and a man, said to have happened while he was celebrating a colleague's birthday in Bar and Beyond, on Prince of Wales Road.

A jury found him guilty of two counts but acquitted him of an offence against one of the women.

The 25-year-old - who had said that joining the police had been his dream since he was a teenager - looked at the ground and showed no reaction as the verdicts were read out.

His trial at Ipswich Crown Court has heard how he was “intoxicated beyond knowing what he was doing” during the night out, in October 2022.

Poole - who........

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