Former Victoria Police sex fiend Marcus Jones found not guilty of Melbourne rape

A former Victoria Police member who lost his job after he violated a 13-year-old girl has been found not guilty of rape after a New Year’s Eve party.

Former Victoria Police member Marcus Jones has been found guilty of sexual assault. Picture: Zizi Averill

A former Victoria Police member who sexually assaulted a woman following a New Year’s Eve booze session has beaten a rape charge.

Marcus Jones, 40, fronted the County Court this week after he was found not guilty of rape but guilty of sexual assault.

Jones, who was also found not guilty of a second sexual assault charge, violated his victim following a News Year’s Eve party.

The court heard Jones drank Jim Beam and Coke during the NYE party, which was attended by several guests, including his former girlfriend.

Jones, who fronted court for the jury verdicts on November 2 last year, claimed he only drank 10 standard drinks but a witness said the fiend was “loud and stumbling around”.

Jones was drinking Jim Beam and Coke during the party.

Jones waited for his ex-girlfriend to go to the bathroom to vomit before he pounced on the victim who had earlier gone to bed in a room at the house.

The court heard Jones entered the room and closed the door before the victim told him to “f--k off”.

However, Jones grabbed the victim’s face and pulled it towards himself before he sexually assaulted her, the court was told.

Jones exited the room and was confronted by his ex-girlfriend who accused the fiend of “cheating on her”.

Witnesses saw the pair in a “heated argument” before Jones threatened to kill himself by driving in front of a train.

Concerned guests called triple-0 but Jones drove home intoxicated without incident.

The alleged rape and sexual assaults were reported to police.

Investigators set up a “pre-text call” between Jones and the victim in which the fiend “apologised” and claimed he “did not know why he did what he did”.

Police arrested Jones who made a “no comment” interview but later claimed his lewd offending was “entirely consensual”.

The court heard Jones graduated high school before he worked for various Queensland government departments.

Jones later moved to Melbourne before joining Victoria Police in 2014.

The court was told Jones, a father of two, was “very proud of being able to join the police force”.

He resigned from Victoria Police in late 2017. Picture: Zizi Averill

However, Jones was “forced to resign” from Victoria Police in late 2017 after he committed vile offences in October 2015 “while under the influence of alcohol”.

Judge Rosemary Carlin said Jones attended a party, consumed alcohol, then committed sexual offences against a 13-year-old girl.

Jones then apologised to the victim and asked if she was “traumatised”.

Jones pleaded guilty to multiple indecent acts with a child under 16 charges and was handed an 18-month community correction order and made a registered sex offender in 2017.

The court heard Jones, of Wyndham Vale North, is expecting a child with his current partner and works full-time as a forklift operator.

“You ultimately used force to get what you wanted by grabbing her face…,” Judge Carlin said.

“You did this in what should have been the safety of her room and while she was lying in bed … you did this despite being … subject to the requirements of the sex offender registration act.”

Judge Carlin also said the victim “expressed feelings of grief, anger, shame and distress”.

Jones was convicted, fined $2000 and handed an 18-month community correction order.