A former police officer who sent sexual messages and indecent pictures to teenagers on a cadet scheme has been jailed for five years.

.Adnan Ali, 36, sexually assaulted three victims, aged between 15 and 18, and sent sexual messages which were “bordering on relentless” while working on the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) cadet scheme and apprenticeship programme between 2015 and 2018, Liverpool Crown Court heard on Friday.