This is the first picture of the drugs kingpin who dated a glamorous rookie officer while she had an affair with a married police chief.
Caitlin Howarth, 24, went on ‘one date’ with Joseph Shaw, 29, in October 2021 having met the crook on Tinder.
University graduate Howarth had been having an illicit affair with her married boss at West Yorkshire Police chief superintendent Daniel Greenwood since the summer of 2020.
The pair had sex twice and were still exchanging steamy messages until her suspension in November 2021 when the force’s anti-corruption unit suspected links between her and the criminal.
Now, MailOnline can reveal Shaw appeared on the Channel 4 dating show First Dates in 2017 where he dined with pink-haired Jodie.
In the show, he phoned a friend from the restaurant’s toilets claiming he was on a date with a woman he had spent the night before with.
It emerged yesterday Howarth had criminal charges dropped over her fling with convicted drugs kingpin Shaw earlier this month, but she still faces a misconduct probe over her relationship with the crook.
Shaw was handed a six-and-a-half year jail term in January last year for his role in a £1.5million heroin ring.
Joseph Shaw was handed a six-and-a-half year jail term in January last year for his role in a £1.5million heroin ring
Caitlin Howarth, then 21, was suspended by West Yorkshire Police accused of having an illicit relationship with Joseph Shaw. She was due to face a trial in York next year charged with misconduct in a public office. But yesterday, the case was dropped
Prior to his conviction, the 28-year-old had appeared on the Channel 4 dating show in 2017
Chief Superintendent Greenwood (pictured) abused his position by striking up an illicit relationship with student officer Howarth
During Greenwood’s misconduct hearing yesterday, it emerged that Howarth had turned to her boss for advice after she had met Shaw with his brother Daniel behind bars at the time.
Greenwood ironically told her Shaw ‘wouldn’t stop until he’s sh****d you’ and ‘that’s not ok’ having himself already embarked on an illicit affair with the student officer.
Howarth was aged 21 when she was suspended in November 2021 after West Yorkshire Police’s anti-corruption unit suspected links between her and the criminal.
She was due to face a trial in York next year charged with misconduct in a public office.
But the Crown Prosecution Service said criminal proceedings had been halted and that no evidence would be offered. She is no longer a police officer after resigning from her role.
Shaw, a used car salesman, and his sibling were arrested after the police raided a property connected to the pair on Silkstone Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, and seized 31kg of heroin and £100,000 in cash.
The brothers admitted to conspiracy to supply both cocaine and heroin – Shaw was also charged with conspiracy to produce cannabis in 2021.
His brother was hit with a substantial ten-and-a-half-years in jail during sentencing at Bradford Crown Court.
‘He seemed like a normal guy working as a car dealer. There was no indication he was involved in drugs,’ a friend said last January, according to The Sun.
At a hearing in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, a panel was told how Greenwood twice had sex with Howarth (pictured) after he successfully helped her apply for a job
Joey on the Channel 4 dating show in which he phoned a friend claiming he was on a date with a woman he had spent the night before with
Joey dinned with pink-haired Jodie on the show. In 2023 he was jailed for more than six years for his part in a £1.5million heroin ring
A family friend of Howarth previously claimed that the rookie cop, who lives with her parents in a £300,000 home in Bingley, was ‘devastated’ after being suspended.
The friend suggested that she had been on just one date with Shaw and had no idea about his criminality.
The pal said: ‘It’s nonsense that she was in a relationship with a drugs kingpin.
‘She went on a single date with him and that was it. It was a long, long time ago and she had absolutely no idea about any involvement in drugs.
‘She was never in a relationship with him and she’s been left quite upset about it all.’
It also emerged yesterday that Greenwood, 41, had resigned from the force ahead of his misconduct hearing after he breached Covid guidelines to have sex with Howarth.
The tribunal hearing heard Greenwood had abused his position by striking up an illicit relationship with student officer Howarth.
Greenwood, Bradford’s district commander, swapped flirtatious texts and sexually explicit pictures with the university graduate, 17 years his junior.
He resigned from his 20-year career ahead of his police misconduct hearing on the same day criminal misconduct charges were dropped against Howarth.
Howarth remains subject to a misconduct investigation over the affair.
Greenwood’s disciplinary hearing heard that the district commander abused his position and exploited the age gap having helped her join West Yorkshire Police aged 20.
The ‘obviously inappropriate’ fling between the pair caused ‘tittle-tattle and gossip in the ranks’.
In an opening statement, John Beggs, KC, representing the force, said: ‘Whatever her sexual desires for Greenwood, it ought reasonably to have been obvious to an officer of [his] length of service, age, and rank that she was vulnerable in any relationship with him by reason of the stark disparity in age and rank.’
At a hearing in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, a panel was told how Greenwood twice had sex with the young woman after he successfully helped her apply for a job.
Greenwood was first introduced to Howarth (pictured) by her mother in 2019, who was a governor at his children’s primary school, seeking advice on how she could join the police after leaving university
But when the affair came to light in November 2021, Greenwood attempted to perform a factory reset on his iPhone to conceal the evidence.
In an opening address, in which Ms Howarth was referred to as Miss A, Mr Beggs said: ‘Greenwood’s conduct towards Miss A over the period…amounts to an abuse of position for a sexual purpose.
‘An officer of Greenwood’s experience, service and rank knew, or ought to have known, that his sexual dalliances with his probationer were bound to bring discredit upon the police service, as indeed they have in numerous unfortunate media articles.’
By the summer of 2020 the pair – who both had partners – mutually messaged each other with sexual images. The texts continued until she was arrested in November 2021, the panel heard.
When the couple had sex in January 2021, Greenwood – the force’s silver commander for Bradford’s Covid response – ‘probably breached’ stay-at-home rules by visiting her flat.
Mr Beggs said: ‘Greenwood would obviously have known that a chief superintendent having sex with a probationary officer during a Covid lockdown would be likely to bring discredit upon the police service.’
When quizzed over the illicit liaisons, Greenwood told investigators that the ‘sexual attraction and flirtation was mutual’ and ‘was habitually initiated by Miss A’.
Through his representatives, he told investigating officers Miss A had wanted to leave her boyfriend and ‘found older men…more attractive’.
She, in turn, said she did not have sex with Greenwood because of his rank but ‘because I was going through a rough time with my boyfriend’.
She told investigators: ‘I think it’s because after a few months of speaking to him and going through a rough time with my boyfriend I ended up getting feelings and then that’s how it happened.
Bradford Police officers found 31 kilos of heroin in two laundry bags in the attic at a property connected to the brothers, which at street value is worth £1.5 million pounds and £100,000 in cash
Daniel Shaw, 24, of Albion Road was later arrested and charged with conspiracy to supply heroin, conspiracy to supply cocaine and conspiracy to produce cannabis
She added: ‘He always asked me to delete the messages. I think he deleted them so that his wife didn’t see but he used to say make sure you delete the pictures or delete the messages. Towards the end I didn’t cos I didn’t think. I didn’t know why I needed to. I think he deleted them from my iCloud at his request.’
Matters unravelled in October 2021 when Miss A turned to Greenwood for advice after meeting Shaw on Tinder, whose brother Daniel was in prison at the time.
When she told Greenwood of her contact with Shaw, he ironically replied: ‘He won’t stop until he’s sh****d you. That’s not ok.’
Greenwood was first introduced to Miss A by her mother in 2019, who was a governor at his children’s primary school, seeking advice on how she could join the police after leaving university.
But the tribunal heard that his motivations ‘morphed, at least in part, into sexual self-interest’.
Greenwood, whose wife is undergoing treatment for cancer, was not present at the hearing in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, but admitted discreditable conduct amounting to gross misconduct.
He admitted exchanging sexually explicit messages but ‘believed she was mature and had adult capacity to engage in a sexual relationship with him’.
A panel will decide today if his conduct would have led to his dismissal had he not resigned.
Hugh Davies, KC, representing Greenwood said he suffered post-traumatic stress and was not fit to give evidence.
He said: ‘A highly promising police career has ended. Many perceived he had the potential to become a chief officer. That is all now gone.
