A police detective who sexually assaulted two female colleagues was branded a “dirty pervert” by one of his victims, a court has heard.
Richard Mills, who was a Detective Sergeant for Greater Manchester Police, was unanimously found guilty of two charges by a jury of four women and seven men at Liverpool Crown Court.
The married father-of-two broke down in tears when the verdicts were announced before collapsing into a chair in the dock with his head in his hands.
The 41-year-old was cleared of two other sex assaults on the first victim and a similar charge on a third woman. The jury returned their verdicts following just under eight hours of deliberations.
Judge David Swinnerton told Mills, of Oakley Way in Wardle, Rochdale: “I am going to adjourn for a pre-sentence report and I am going to consider all options.”
Mills had denied all five charges during the two week trial.
The first victim, who described him as “a dirty pervert”, told the court how he put her hand on his crotch while she was driving him to see a sick colleague.
The second victim told how a similar incident had happened to her and explained how he put her hand on groin when they were sitting together at a seminar.
He was cleared of a further three assaults – two against the first victim, and an assault against a third colleague.
Robert Dudley, prosecuting, had told the jury that the offences took place between 2014 and the summer of 2022.
Mills’s bail was continued while he awaits sentencing on 7 February.
