Married PCSO found guilty of using police database to strike up affairs with four vulnerable women on uniformed patrol 

• He used the police database to find phone numbers and addresses of women on his beat
  
• Defence lawyer had said that if politicians get away with affairs he should too
  
• Also said that if having tea is not criminal then consensual sex isn't either
• Due to be sentenced on Tuesday
  

By LUKE SALKELD

PUBLISHED: 16:24 GMT, 18 March 2013 | UPDATED: 18:36 GMT, 18 March 2013

A married PCSO has been found guilty of misconduct after he slept with four vulnerable women while he was supposed to be on uniformed patrol. 

Peter Bunyan, 40, used the police database as a 'dating agency' by tracking down phone numbers and addresses of attractive women on his beat. 

Father-of-two Bunyan had affairs with the women before and during his policing shift - sleeping with one lover up to ten times when he was on duty.

He even had sex with one woman at a neighbourhood policing unit as he worked a late shift on a housing estate in Cornwall in 2009. 

Bunyan admitted wasting police time but insisted he had not neglected his duty because he kept his radio on during the dates while working for Devon and Cornwall police. 

The former car park worker denied 12 charges of misconduct in a public office but was found guilty of eight counts following a three week trial at Taunton Crown Court. 

He was convicted of sleeping with four women and illegally accessing data relating to three lovers on the Criminal Information System. 

Bunyan, who joined Devon and Cornwall police in 2003, was also found guilty of accessing the system to look up the details of a man without reason. 

The jury acquitted Bunyan of having an affair with a fifth woman and falsely borrowing money from her, as well as looking up the woman and two others on the police computer. 

Bunyan, of Redruth, Cornwall, remained emotionless as the verdicts were returned at Taunton Crown Court. 

His honour Judge Graham Hume Jones remanded Bunyan in custody following his convictions. 

The judge said: 'I will sentence this matter on Tuesday. In the meantime you will be remanded in custody. You may go down now.'

FULL STORY: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295281/Peter-Bunyan-Marrie...