Rapist Faints When He Discovers His Victim Had HIV

A jailed rapist will discover this week whether he
contracted HIV from his victim.
Richard Thomas, 27, collapsed when police
informed him about his victim's medical status
and is still waiting to hear if he has contracted
the virus.
May have HIV: Richard Thomas will not find out
until later this week if he is infected with the
virus as a direct result of a sex attack he carried
out on a womanThomas knew the woman and
was aware that she has another illness but had
not known about the HIV.
He was shocked when he was told and asked to
be taken to hospital, Liverpool Crown Court
heard.
He had let himself into her home in Leigh,
Greater Manchester, uninvited in the middle of
the night and she awoke to find him molesting
her from behind.
"She froze and no words were exchanged. He
pulled up his shorts and left," said Harry Pepper,
prosecuting.
"He was arrested and interviewed and said he
had been drinking heavily, taken cocaine and
ecstasy and could not recall the incident," he
added.
His barrister, Virginia Hayton, said that he still
cannot recall the attack but when told about it
he said that the woman "would not lie, she tells
the truth. If she says I have done it, I have done
it."
Jailing Thomas for five years and four months,
Judge Mark Brown said he had committed "this
dreadful offence" while she lay asleep, having
taken a sleeping tablet, and left her distressed
and anxious.
He ordered him to sign the Sex Offenders
Register for life.
Thomas, of Sandringham Drive, Leigh, pleaded
guilty to molesting the woman on July 20 this
year.
Miss Hayton said that Thomas, who has
previous convictions but none for sexual
offences, "is remorseful and cannot understand
why he did it and it is troubling him."
She said that he will not find out the result of
his HIV test until Friday and has had the worry
of the outcome hanging over him.
A rapist recently jailed at Liverpool Crown Court
will have to wait until Friday to find out if he
has caught HIV from his victim
"It is his own fault, if he had not committed this
offence he would not have placed himself in this
position."
She said that he started using cannabis at the
age of nine and was drinking heavily at the age
of 11. He became addicted to ecstasy and
cocaine at 13 and was put in care the following
year.
He has been trying to contact his family but they
want nothing to do with him, she said, and he
will now be away from his partner and their
young daughter, as well as his two other older
daughters from previous relationships.