Revealed: Channel 4 First Dates drugs kingpin who went on Tinder date with glamorous rookie officer - while she was having affair with 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.