Giggling sex attacker raped woman while she slept

Pervert Desmond Robinson was jailed this week.

Desmond Robinson sexually assaulted the woman after the pair had been smoking crack cocaine and she let him stay on the floor at her home in Featherstone.

Prosecutor David Bradshaw told Leeds Crown Court that Robinson, 52, had been a friend of the woman for years and wanted a relationship with her, but she made it clear she was not interested.

In September of last year, he physically assaulted her and was arrested.

The court was told he had pestered her to drop the charges.

On October 29 she agreed to let him visit her, they took drugs and she took a sleeping pill due to toothache she had been suffering.

She also made up a bed on the floor for Robinson, and she then went to bed.

Sometime later she woke up to Robinson in bed with her and raping her.

She quickly jumped out of bed and punched him, and he began giggling. He then apologised.

She called the police and Robinson was arrested.

During an interview, he read a pre-prepared statement saying she had consented, that she was prostitute and he had paid her £100.

However, a friend of the victim has secretly recorded Robinson admitting having sex without her consent in the moments after the sex attack.

Robinson, of the Royal Sovereign Hotel, on Wakefield Road, Normanton, eventually admitted a charge of rape.

He has 13 previous convictions, including indecent assault on a 14-year-old in the 1980s, indecent exposure charges from 2004 and 2005, and was already on a sexual harm prevention (SHPO) order at the time of the rape.

Mitigating, Rukhshanda.Hussain, said that Robinson fully understood what he did, that he was heavy drug user and added: "The state he was in reflects his lack of judgement.

"He did have feelings for her and he simply did not think it through."

Judge Simon Batiste jailed him for seven-and-a-half years with an extended five-year period on licence.

He said: "She was clearly a vulnerable person, she was a friend but nothing more. You clearly wanted more than that.

"You do present as a dangerous person."

He also handed him a restraining order of indeterminate length to stay away from victim.