Rapist may have contracted HIV from his victim

[Martok]

Talk about karma! 

A jailed rapist has been told he may have contracted HIV from his victim.

Richard Thomas was sentenced to five years and four months for letting himself into the woman's home in the middle of the night and sexually assaulting her while she slept.

The victim, who had taken a sleeping tablet, woke to find the 27-year-old raping her, but was too terrified to protest.

After his arrest, Thomas collapsed when detectives told him his victim had HIV and he may now be infected.

The rapist has been tested at hospital and is expected to find out by Friday if he has the condition that causes AIDS.

Harry Pepper, prosecuting at Liverpool Crown Court, said Thomas walked unvited into the house, in Leigh, Greater Manchester, on July 20.

He added: "She froze and no words were exchanged. He pulled up his shorts and left.

"He was arrested and interviewed and said he had been drinking heavily, had taken cocaine and ecstasy and could not recall the incident."

His barrister Virginia Hayton said: "This [the HIV test] has been hanging over his head. It's his own fault.

"If he'd not committed this offence he would not have placed himself in this position."

Thomas cannot remember the rape, the court heard, but when confronted he agreed the woman "would not lie, she tells the truth", adding: "If she says I have done it, I have done it."

Judge Mark Brown ordered Thomas to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life and described the assault as a 'dreadful offence.'

Thomas, from Leigh, pleaded guilty to rape as his barrister explained he had started using cannabis at the age of nine, drinking heavily when 11, and addicted to ecstasy and cocaine at 13.

[LongBlade]

I saw that. :)

[Boggit]

I'm sorry for the woman. In a sense she gets the last laugh, even if it is a bitter one.