The Policewoman who claimed another officer sexually harassed her was damned as a liar in her sex case tribunal yesterday.

Richard Hector QC, representing the accused Policeman, said the 26-year-old woman was "calling herself a liar'' by giving conflicting evidence.

He asked the woman, who has now quit the Police, to replay the incident to yesterday's Board of Inquiry stage by stage.

And he accused her of lying in her evidence, saying she grabbed the Policeman herself when she went to pay a bar bill on September 11, 1996.

The complainant, identified only as P.c. A, claimed the West Indian-born Policeman forced a kiss on her in his office at Somerset Police Station.

She also said he rubbed his own private parts, telling her how much he wanted her.

But Mr. Hector questioned her about inconsistent statements and missing evidence from her original complaint to the Human Rights Commission during four hours of cross-examination at St. Theresa's Cathedral Hall.

And during one question about when P.c. A claimed her attacker had shut his office door, Mr. Hector said: "You are calling yourself a liar, you know.'' P.c. A said she told the Policeman, known only as P.c. B, to go across the office to his filing cabinet to "calm down''.

But Mr. Hector asked if this was before or after P.c. B had shut the office door, with his secretary sitting outside.

The alleged victim gave a different answer to one of her previous statements.

And Mr. Hector said: "I'm going to suggest to you that you were making it up.

You made it up.

"And you were having trouble putting it all together. That's my suggestion to you.'' P.c. A said: "Everything that I have told about this situation has been the truth.'' Mr. Hector also asked if P.c. A might have forgotten telling the Police doctor she had been sexually assaulted by "two or more'' Police officers.

But P.c. A replied: "No sir.'' Mr. Hector added that the office secretary's statement to the original Police inquiry said P.c. A had approached her alleged attacker on a previous occasion, hugged him and asked: "How are your balls?'' But P.c. A added: "That never happened.'' She also denied threatening the secretary and said she was unaware that she had been investigated for intimidation of a witness.

Referring to the alleged attack, Mr. Hector said: "When he put his tongue in your mouth, couldn't you have bitten it off? "Couldn't you have taken your hand and punched him? Couldn't you have kicked him. Couldn't you have done that?'' P.c. A said: "Yes I could have. But it happened so fast -- him grabbing and taking advantage of me and me trying to get out of his office.'' The alleged victim reported the incident five days later and turned to the Human Rights Commission, which convened the Board of Inquiry chaired by Tim Marshall, after a Police investigation was closed.

Mr. Hector, recalling the incident, said: "I'm going to suggest to you that you walked towards him and as he straightened up you pushed yourself around his body and held him around the waist.'' The alleged victim said: "I don't agree with that, sir.'' The alleged victim, represented by Clare Hatcher, told her lawyer: "After P.c. B had grabbed me and put his tongue in my mouth...and by him closing the door, I knew that this was more than just this man wanting to kiss me.

"I thought that P.c. B might try to have sexual intercourse with me.'' She said she had also complained about an earlier incident involving her accused, in which she said he "asked her to model for him'' at the photocopying machine.

And the alleged victim's mother also claimed P.c. B confessed to a "relationship'' -- which he later described as a friendship -- when she confronted him about the incident.

A report from former St. Brendan's psychiatrist Dr. Gareth Smith, who examined P.c. A in September, 1997, said the woman was "very tearful and upset'' and had suffered suicidal tendencies, nightmares and depression after the alleged attack.

The case continues.