A policeman has told how he was "not upset" and was even "amused" when he caught a man having sex with his partner at their home.

Bradford PC Erroll Bogle, a former Army boxer, said he had shoved Tom Wright but did not attack him after finding him with his girlfriend Leanne Berry at the flat they shared at Howgill Green in Bradford.

Hull Crown Court yesterday heard evidence from police interviews with Bogle, 42, who denies wounding Mr Wright in October 1999 and a separate charge of later intimidating him.

Bogle said he came home from the Brown Cow pub in Wyke and heard "some sort of dispute" between the couple. He said that Miss Berry had told Bogle 'Get him out' and that Mr Wright had called her a 'bitch'.

Bogle told police that he had given Mr Wright "a shove" but he had not fallen over.

Bogle said he then argued with Miss Berry - but because she had driven his car, not because of sleeping with another man, the court heard.

Bogle had said: "She is a bit of a fool. It didn't surprise me. I knew she was that way."

He later said: "I mean she was not bringing blokes back all the time."

And he said: "Some lads think she is easy but she is not that way."

Bogle, who was based at Eccleshill station, said he had known Mr Wright from the Brown Cow pub in Wyke. Bogle had run the football team there.

He told officers that Mr Wright was not a friend or a footballer but said he considered himself a 'ladies' man'.

Asked how he felt at finding the pair together, Bogle had said: "I know what you are trying to say. I was amused."

But Martin Rudland, prosecuting, told the jury that Bogle had "sought to distance himself from the truth" of the assault.

He added: "The reality is that he is more concerned with his own position than telling the truth."

Bogle has also denied intimidating Mr Wright in a separate incident at the Brown Cow pub when he was alleged to have told him: "When this is all over I am coming back for you."

The trial continues.