After taking a sleeping pill, the woman woke up to discover that Thomas was raping her.
“She froze and no words were exchanged,” prosecutor Harry Pepper stated. “He pulled up his shorts and left.”
Virginia Hayton, Thomas’s attorney, stated that although Thomas was not certain of what had happened that evening, he assured her that the woman “would not lie, she tells the truth.”
The Telegraph claims that “if she says I have done it, I have done it.” Whether Thomas knew his victim prior to the incident was not immediately apparent.
The case’s presiding judge, Mark Brown, sentenced Thomas to five years and four months in prison and placed him permanently on the Sex Offenders Register for the “dreadful offense.”
Hayton said that Thomas was in excruciating pain from what had happened that night. Thomas has a history of convictions, but none related to rape or sexual assault.
