A transgender volunteer police officer allegedly told his victim he wanted to have sex with her despite her being 'so young' she was still interested in teddy bears, a court heard.

James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, was violent towards the complainant despite her asking them to be gentle when taking her virginity while in her early teens, Amersham Law Courts heard.

In a police interview played to the court on Tuesday, the alleged victim told officers that at the age of 12, she was being 'hidden' when the pair were in public together and that the defendant, who was 21, looked 'paranoid' when with her.

The complainant, who met Bubb on video-chat site Omegle in 2018, also spoke of how she was 'frozen' when the now 27-year-old defendant attempted to engage in sexual activity in public shortly before her 13th birthday.

She told officers she had said to the defendant that she was five years older than she actually was when they first met - but insisted that a number of incidents when they were together would have meant he knew she was underage.