The medicine kingpin who dated a glamorous rookie officer earlier than she had an affair with a married police chief has been revealed to be First Dates star Joseph Shaw.
Shaw, referred to as ‘Joey’, was named as Caitlin Howarth’s love curiosity throughout former West Yorkshire Police chief superintendent Daniel Greenwood’s tribunal listening to yesterday.
The 28-year-old, who as soon as appeared on the Channel 4 relationship present in 2017, met Howarth, 24, on Tinder with the duo occurring ‘one date’ collectively.
Howarth had turned to Greenwood for recommendation in October 2021 after she met Shaw along with his brother Daniel behind bars on the time.
Greenwood mockingly informed her Shaw ‘would not cease till he is sh****d you’ and ‘that is not okay’ earlier than embarking on his personal illicit affair with the scholar officer.
Shaw was handed a six-and-a-half 12 months jail time period in January final 12 months for his position in a £1.5million heroin ring.
Joseph Shaw was handed a six-and-a-half 12 months jail time period in January final 12 months for his position in a £1.5million heroin ring
Previous to his conviction, the 28-year-old had appeared on the Channel 4 relationship present in 2017
Howarth turned to married police chief Daniel Greenwood for recommendation in October 2021 after she met Shaw along with his brother Daniel behind bars on the time
Chief Superintendent Greenwood (pictured) abused his place by placing up a bootleg relationship with scholar officer Howarth
The used automobile salesman and his brother, Daniel, had been arrested after the police raided a property related to the pair on Silkstone Highway, Bradford, West Yorkshire, and seized 31kg of heroin and £100,000 in money.
Shaw and his sibling admitted to conspiracy to provide each cocaine and heroin – Shaw was additionally charged with conspiracy to provide hashish in 2021.
His brother was hit with a considerable ten-and-a-half-years in jail throughout sentencing at Bradford Crown Courtroom.
Shaw featured on the truth tv programme fronted by French TV persona Fred Sirieix the place he was matched with pink-haired Jodie, who was then 23.
In considered one of his extra memorable scenes, he telephones a buddy from the restaurant’s bathrooms claiming he was on a date with a girl he had spent the night time earlier than with.
The pair each knew once they met that they might be showing on First Dates, nevertheless, they’d no clue that they might be relationship one another.
‘He appeared like a traditional man working as a automobile supplier. There was no indication he was concerned in medicine,’ a buddy mentioned final January, in response to The Solar.
Howarth was aged 21 when she was suspended after West Yorkshire Police’s anti-corruption unit suspected hyperlinks between her and the felony.
She was attributable to face a trial in York subsequent 12 months charged with misconduct in a public workplace.
However the Crown Prosecution Service mentioned felony proceedings had been halted and that no proof could be supplied. She is now not a police officer after resigning from her position.
At a listening to in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, a panel was informed how Greenwood twice had intercourse with Howarth (pictured) after he efficiently helped her apply for a job
Joey on the Channel 4 relationship present during which he phoned a buddy claiming he was on a date with a girl he had spent the night time earlier than with
Joey dinned with pink-haired Jodie on the present. In 2023 he was jailed for greater than six years for his half in a £1.5million heroin ring
A household buddy of Howarth beforehand claimed that the rookie cop, who lives together with her dad and mom in a £300,000 dwelling in Bingley, was ‘devastated’ after being suspended.
The buddy advised that she had been on only one date with Shaw and had no concept about his criminality.
The pal mentioned: ‘It is nonsense that she was in a relationship with a medication kingpin.
‘She went on a single date with him and that was it. It was a protracted, very long time in the past and she or he had completely no concept about any involvement in medicine.
‘She was by no means in a relationship with him and she or he’s been left fairly upset about all of it.’
It additionally emerged yesterday that Greenwood, 41, had resigned from the pressure forward of his misconduct listening to after he breached Covid pointers to have intercourse with Howarth.
The tribunal listening to heard Greenwood had abused his place by placing up a bootleg relationship with scholar officer Howarth.
Greenwood, Bradford’s district commander, swapped flirtatious texts and sexually express footage with the college graduate, 17 years his junior.
He resigned from his 20-year profession forward of his police misconduct listening to on the identical day felony misconduct expenses had been dropped towards Howarth.
Howarth stays topic to a misconduct investigation over the affair.
Greenwood’s disciplinary listening to heard that the district commander abused his place and exploited the age hole having helped her be a part of West Yorkshire Police aged 20.
The ‘clearly inappropriate’ fling between the pair prompted ‘tittle-tattle and gossip within the ranks’.
In a gap assertion, John Beggs, KC, representing the pressure, mentioned: ‘No matter her sexual needs for Greenwood, it ought moderately to have been apparent to an officer of [his] size of service, age, and rank that she was weak in any relationship with him by purpose of the stark disparity in age and rank.’
At a listening to in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, a panel was informed how Greenwood twice had intercourse with the younger girl after he efficiently helped her apply for a job.
Greenwood was first launched to Howarth (pictured) by her mom in 2019, who was a governor at his youngsters’s major faculty, searching for recommendation on how she might be a part of the police after leaving college
However when the affair got here to mild in November 2021, Greenwood tried to carry out a manufacturing facility reset on his iPhone to hide the proof.
In a gap tackle, during which Ms Howarth was known as Miss A, Mr Beggs mentioned: ‘Greenwood’s conduct in the direction of Miss A over the interval…quantities to an abuse of place for a sexual goal.
‘An officer of Greenwood’s expertise, service and rank knew, or must have recognized, that his sexual dalliances along with his probationer had been sure to carry discredit upon the police service, as certainly they’ve in quite a few unlucky media articles.’
By the summer season of 2020 the pair – who each had companions – mutually messaged one another with sexual photos. The texts continued till she was arrested in November 2021, the panel heard.
When the couple had intercourse in January 2021, Greenwood – the pressure’s silver commander for Bradford’s Covid response – ‘most likely breached’ stay-at-home guidelines by visiting her flat.
Mr Beggs mentioned: ‘Greenwood would clearly have recognized {that a} chief superintendent having intercourse with a probationary officer throughout a Covid lockdown could be more likely to carry discredit upon the police service.’
When quizzed over the illicit liaisons, Greenwood informed investigators that the ‘sexual attraction and flirtation was mutual’ and ‘was habitually initiated by Miss A’.
By his representatives, he informed investigating officers Miss A had wished to go away her boyfriend and ‘discovered older males…extra enticing’.
She, in flip, mentioned she didn’t have intercourse with Greenwood due to his rank however ‘as a result of I used to be going by means of a tough time with my boyfriend’.
She informed investigators: ‘I feel it is as a result of after just a few months of talking to him and going by means of a tough time with my boyfriend I ended up getting emotions after which that is the way it occurred.
Bradford Cops discovered 31 kilos of heroin in two laundry baggage within the attic at a property related to the brothers, which at avenue worth is price £1.5 million kilos and £100,000 in money
Daniel Shaw, 24, of Albion Highway was later arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide heroin, conspiracy to provide cocaine and conspiracy to provide hashish
She added: ‘He all the time requested me to delete the messages. I feel he deleted them in order that his spouse did not see however he used to say be sure to delete the photographs or delete the messages. In the direction of the top I did not cos I did not assume. I did not know why I wanted to. I feel he deleted them from my iCloud at his request.’
Issues unravelled in October 2021 when Miss A turned to Greenwood for recommendation after assembly Shaw on Tinder, whose brother Daniel was in jail on the time.
When she informed Greenwood of her contact with Shaw, he mockingly replied: ‘He will not cease till he is sh****d you. That is not okay.’
Greenwood was first launched to Miss A by her mom in 2019, who was a governor at his youngsters’s major faculty, searching for recommendation on how she might be a part of the police after leaving college.
However the tribunal heard that his motivations ‘morphed, at the least partly, into sexual self-interest’.
Greenwood, whose spouse is present process therapy for most cancers, was not current on the listening to in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, however admitted discreditable conduct amounting to gross misconduct.
He admitted exchanging sexually express messages however ‘believed she was mature and had grownup capability to interact in a sexual relationship with him’.
A panel will determine at present if his conduct would have led to his dismissal had he not resigned.
Hugh Davies, KC, representing Greenwood mentioned he suffered post-traumatic stress and was not match to provide proof.
He mentioned: ‘A extremely promising police profession has ended. Many perceived he had the potential to grow to be a chief officer. That’s all now gone.
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