A disgraced former officer has been jailed after making 'sexual contact' with a vulnerable woman in a police car and again in a hospital .

A court heard how Owen Mills had been tasked with supervising the woman, who had brain damage due to alcoholism.

The 22-year-old made his disgusting move while she was detained in a police car, having been turned away from one hospital, before further explicit contact was made when the pair were alone in a second hospital for 'about 20 minutes'.

Mills, a former officer with Staffordshire Police, went on to send racy messages to the woman while she was kept in hospital.

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Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard that Mills had also sent inappropriate

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