A WOMAN was reluctant to report alleged rapes because she said her attacker was a serving police officer and feared she would not be believed, a court heard.

The alleged victim's mother and sister appeared as witnesses in the trial of West Mercia Police officer, Gary Jones, who served in Malvern and Worcester.

Both women gave evidence behind a screen. The 45-year-old denies two counts of rape between June and September 2006 at his ongoing trial at Worcester Crown Court.

Her mother told the jury today that her daughter said in a telephone conversation at the time: "Mum, he's done it again. This time he's forced himself on me."

The woman described her daughter as being 'an absolute mess' afterwards. She told her daughter she must go the police but added: "She was very reluctant, saying no-one would believe her because he's a police officer."

The alleged victim's sister said she first heard about the rape allegation from her mum but that her sister told her about it herself over the phone the same evening. She told the jury she confronted Jones a couple of days later, telling him that what he had done was 'classed as rape' and that he had replied that he would 'do what I like'.

She said she understood her sister had reported the alleged rape to Jones's sergeant at Malvern Police Station at the time.

The witness claimed she had written down everything that had happened to her sister. "My understanding is the police did nothing with it" she said.

Sharon Bahia, for Jones, asked the witness about a visit to Hereford Crown Court on June 8 when she was heard by a detective constable to say of her sister that she had 'spun so many lies'.

The witness said she had been 'upset and tearful and angry' because her sister had told her it was the Crown Prosecution Service which had brought the case to court when it had been her choice. This was the lie she had been referring to and also said her sister had lied by blaming her family for the breakdown of a relationship. When asked by Miss Bahia, she said she was concerned about how this comment she had made would affect her sister's case. She denied using the phrase 'spinning lies'. The trial continues.