Ex-Bristol PC tells court women consented to sex
Lewis was calm and softly spoken as he told a jury at Exeter Crown Court that all the encounters were with the women's consent.
He admitted that when rape allegations were made against him he initially lied to other officers about having any contact because he was "completely petrified".
Lewis, 26, of Bibury Close, Nailsea, has pleaded guilty to five counts of misconduct by engaging in sexual activity while acting as a police constable.
The first three occasions involved him admitting that he received oral sex from the first complainant between April 2005 and July 2007.
He also admits that, on two occasions, he had sexual activity with the second complainant between January 2007 and July 2008.
He denies three rape charges concerning the first woman and denies a further charge of having sexual activity with the second woman in a police car.
Lewis said he joined the police at the age of 19. He said he resigned from the Avon and Somerset force in November last year having qualified as acting sergeant.
He told the jury his meetings with the first woman started after he was sent to interview her because she had witnessed a road accident in Gatehouse Avenue, Bishopsworth, in September 2005.
Lewis described how, on duty and in full uniform, he visited the woman's home and took a statement from her in her lounge.
He said at the end of the statement she told him her occupation was "pole dancer", and she put a DVD on her TV of her dancing in a national competition.
He said: "It was happy, chatty and had reached the flirting stage with the DVD being put on.
"After the statement was signed and completed I put the paperwork back in my folder and got up to leave.
"I was heading towards the door of the lounge, to get back in the hall, and she got up off the sofa and walked towards me.
"The atmosphere was still smiling, still chatty and as she walked up to me. We kissed.
"The kiss was to the mouth. It was quite strong and I remember tasting smoke."
Lewis described how the kiss lasted for "a minute or two" before the woman undid his uniform and gave him oral sex before he returned to Bishopsworth police station.
He denied taking his handcuffs out or forcing himself on the woman.
It was in January or February 2006, he said, when he was again on duty in his marked police car when he visited the woman at her home.
He said that, after the woman opened the front door wrapped in just a towel, they chatted.
He said, he asked for oral sex and she obliged in her lounge.
He said that on his third visit in April or May 2006 the woman only had a towel round her again, and she gave him oral sex in her dining room.
Lewis told the jury he had never gone upstairs at her home or into her bedroom.
Regarding the second complainant, Lewis described how he was called to a public disorder at Asda in Bedminster and he was asked to sit in a police car with a young woman who he thought had been arrested.
He said that as they chatted he turned her mood from angry to flirty and she told him she wanted to be a model and had a photo shoot the next day.
The jury was told that Lewis went on to have sexual encounters with the student four times – two when he was on duty but not in a police car and two when he was off duty.
He said he was on duty when he drove a community support car to pick her up and take her home on one occasion, conceding he had no business to use it for that purpose, and she gave him oral sex before he took her to college.
On a second occasion, Lewis said, he was off duty when he drove his own car to the woman's home, took her to Dundry Hill and she gave him oral sex.
Lewis told the jury on a third occasion he was on duty when he went to the woman's home and she carried out a sex act on him.
A fourth occasion, when he was off duty, involved them having full sex, he said.
Lewis insisted that though he lied to police in his initial interviews he was telling the truth in court.
The case continues.
