Steven Gerrard CCTV Policewoman must wait two months to discover fate over street row footage

PC Helen Jones leaves Preston Crown Court.

An off-duty policewoman must wait another two months before her bid to persuade a judge her attempts to get CCTV of Steven Gerrard’s alleged street bust-up was “naive” rather than “for criminal purposes”.

Helen Jones pretended she was investigating the altercation between the Liverpool FC skipper and another man, close to the footballer’s millionaire home, when she walked into a Lloyds bank in Formby whose cameras captured last August’s fracas.

But the 31-year-old was on a career break from Merseyside Police at the time, and had not been assigned to probe the flare up connected to the 34-year-old Kop captain.

Jones admitted misconduct in a public office last week at Preston Crown Court, but disagreed with prosecutors claims that she was part of an organised criminal plot.

A trial of issue was expected to take place today, but the case was adjourned until the end of November after a request by her barrister.

Roderick Jones, her lawyer, said: “We are making enquiries which is the obtaining of potential evidence from potential witnesses.

“Our case is my client’s state of knowledge at the time of committing the offence.”

Jones, wearing a brown suit, covered up her face once again while she entered and left court.

The former police officer is now facing jail.

The incident, on August 8 last year, erupted between Gerrard and the man as the midfielder got out of his Range Rover outside a shop in Formby.

Jones, now living in Chatam, Kent, was previously a police constable for Merseyside Police and community support officer with the neighbouring force in Cheshire.

Richard Howarth, prosecuting, said last week: “The Crown say that this whole enterprise by the defence was carried out for, in effect, criminal or illegal purposes to be carried out by others.

“Her role within this was to perpetrate criminal and illegal matters.

“She was deceptive when booked in on her arrest, she told lies in respect of a key (to a property in London), she was deceitful when she produced a prepared statement following her arrest and she was deceitful, say the Crown, in setting out a defence statement denying any involvement with the the matter and seeking to set up a defence of alibi.”

Jones’ barrister called Jones’ actions ‘a rather naive gross misjudgment.’

Gerrard, his model wife Alex and the player’s close pal Lee McPartland, 43, are named in civil action legal papers lodged at London’s High Court.

Liverpool fan and property developer Paul Lloyd, 34, who lives on the same plush street in Formby as Gerrard and his wife Alex, has sought damages from them in connection with the incident.

Jones, currently released on conditional bail, quit the force in December after the start of the criminal probe against her.