An ex-Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for 30 months for sexually assaulting a child. Pc Farhan Ghadiali, of Woodford Green, Essex, sexually assaulted the girl while off duty in 2019.
Ghadiali, 44, who was dismissed without notice from the force, was found guilty of sexual assaulting a child under the age of 13 after an earlier trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.
Kate Davey, prosecuting, said the girl had been left “traumatised at every level”, “cries a lot”, is “very scared” and has “self-harmed because of this”.
She told a hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court on Wednesday Ghadiali, who had no previous convictions, “had been drinking heavily that day”.
Orla Davy, mitigating, said: “This was absolutely a one-off incident.”
She added: “It was a brief incident and it was an incident of touching over the victim’s clothing.”
Judge Christopher Morgan told Ghadiali it was a serious offence against a very young child.
He said the offence had “caused her profound psychological issues”.
The judge added that Ghadiali’s conviction had brought his police career to an end, adding: “You may find it very difficult to find employment in future.”
