NSW Police officer Alexander Cox charged with recording intimate video without consent, showing cop mates

A NSW Police officer has denied allegations he secretly filmed himself having “doggie-style” sex with a woman while she was wearing a collar and leash before he showed the video to two cop mates.

NSW Police officer Alex Cox at Sutherland Local Court for his hearing into allegations he filmed himself having sex with a woman without her consent before he showed it to other police officers. Picture: Ashleigh Tullis

A NSW Police officer has denied allegations he secretly filmed himself having “doggie-style” sex with a woman while she was wearing a collar and leash before he showed the video to two cop mates.

Alexander James Cox, 29, was charged with one count of intentionally recording an intimate image without consent and two counts of intentionally distributing the image without consent.

Cox – who works as a constable at St George Police Station in Kogarah but has been suspended with pay – pleaded not guilty to the charges and defended the allegations at a two-day hearing in Sutherland Local Court on Tuesday.

The Crown alleges Cox intentionally recorded himself having sexual intercourse with a woman without her knowledge and that she did not consent to the recording being made.

It is further alleged Cox showed the recording to two men and a woman, who were all serving NSW Police officers, at later occasions.

Alex Cox.

Professional Standards Command officer established Strike Force Sum in September 2021 to investigate allegations Cox, who previously worked at a Sydney City police station, had recorded and distributed intimate images of a woman.

Cox’s defence lawyer Paul McGirr told the court there was no evidence of the video found on his client’s phone and the “extremely weak prosecution case” came down to identification of the woman and his client in the video.

The court heard two of the officers who were shown the video did not see a distinctive tattoo on the woman.

The woman told the court she was in a sexual relationship with Cox and she recalled having sex at Cox’s Engadine apartment and she brought a “collar and leash” with her.

The woman said she later heard a rumour from her and Cox’s mutual friend police officer Zachary Barrett that there was a video of the couple having sex.

In her evidence, the woman said she was told by Barrett that “Coxy took a video of you two having sex” before he went on to clarify that Cox had shown him the video while “with the boys”.

The woman recalled the conversation with Barrett who told her the video was of them having sex in “doggy style”, that he could see her tattoos and a dog leash and collar were used, adding there was a “clapping” sound.

Alex Cox (right) with his lawyer Paul McGirr. Picture: Ashleigh Tullis

The woman told the court she never consented to the recording being taken nor distributed.

In cross examination, the woman confirmed she never actually saw the video and accepted her memory of the number of times they had sex and the conversations she had about the recording were “vague”.

She said she did not remember silk scarf being used as props during their sex, as suggested, and denied they never used the collar and leash.

Police officer Zachary Barrett gave evidence he was with Cox in a garage at their Matraville home working out when he was shown a video.

He told the court Cox had told him the name of the woman and he believed the video was of Cox and the woman.

Constable Barrett said he did not recall if he saw a tattoo when he watched the video.

He further stated he did not recall if he told the woman he saw a tattoo when he spoke to her about the video but told her he did not want to be involved in reporting the allegation.

In cross examination Constable Barrett confirmed a tattoo did not “stick out in your mind” when he saw the video.

Constable Barrett also accepted that he could have potentially been “hoodwinked by Cox” adding Cox was “in a joking mood, having a laugh among the boys” when he said it was him in the video.

Similarly, another police officer Sam Kirk, who is now a detective, told the court Cox had shown him a video of a man and woman having sex with a “black leather items, a belt or similar’ around her neck, which they viewed at his house in Little Bay.

He told the court he could not remember “anything distinctive” about the woman in the video.

The case will resume on Wednesday in front of Magistrate Holly Kemp.