A police officer has pleaded not guilty to the rape of a teenage girl.
PC Leigh Brightman, from Hitchin, appeared at the Old Bailey for a plea and case management hearing today.
The 36-year-old denied all charges, including one count of rape of a girl aged between 13 and 15, and four counts of misconduct in a public office between April 2009 and June 2014.
He is also charged with making and possessing indecent images of a child. His trial at the Old Bailey is scheduled to start on November 2.
PC Brightman - who served as an officer in Watford, Rickmansworth and north Hertfordshire - was arrested in August and is currently suspended from Hertfordshire Constabulary.
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