Published date: 16 June 2016 |
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A MAN who sexually assaulted a young woman when she stayed in his flat overnight has been jailed.
Johan Abedin, 45, was cleared of attempting to rape the woman aged 20 when the prosecution offered no evidence against him.
But he admitted sexually assaulting her and at Mold Crown Court yesterday he was jailed for 20 months and placed on the sex offenders register for a decade
The court heard he left his home in Brook Street, Llangollen, when the allegation was made in 2014 and was later arrested in Jersey.
Peter Moss, prosecuting, said the complainant and a male friend had been on a night out at Llangollen.
They met Adedin, both accepted an invitation to return to his home where they continued drinking.
The three agreed to sleep in the same bed, the young woman was initially in the middle but she moved and put her male friend next to Abedin after he tried to hug her.
She drifted in and out of sleep, got up for 10 minutes because she felt ill and the room was spinning, and later felt him trying to kiss her and she moved her hand.
Later he was said to be trying to kiss her with a look of excitement on his face and was rubbing himself against her from behind.
She leapt out of bed, asked him what he thought he was doing, and was accompanied home by her male friend.
Police found he had left the area but his DNA was found on a substance on her shorts.
Judge Geraint Walters said Abedin had got talking to the complainant and her male friend.
He invited them back to his place and more drink was consumed.
They agreed to stay the night and share a bed and the judge said he had no doubt Adedin saw that as an opportunity to engage in sexual activity. No doubt he hoped that it would consensual, he added.
When he went to bed he “tried it on” with her when she was hopelessly drunk.
She made it clear she wanted no sexual activity with him and placed her male friend between them.
In the course of the night he somehow managed to end up behind her and appeared to be simulating intercourse behind her.
She was asleep and by any standard was not consenting.
When he invited them to stay she had trusted him to behave and he had abused that trust.
“You decided that you would sexually please yourself, whatever she thought. That is exactly what happened,” he said.
Abedin, now of Hampton Street in London, was a man who had difficulty understanding appropriate borders when it came to sexual behaviour, the judge said. A previous conviction in 2007 for soliciting a woman for prostitution assisted him in that assessment.
“You don’t see women in quite the same way that someone ought to,” said Judge Walters.
“You saw this girl as a potential target once she accepted your invitation to go back to your place.
“You knew what you were doing.”
Defence barrister Simon Killeen said there had been no attempt at penetration.
He argued there was no breach of trust and to send Abedin to custody would be the wrong sentence and not in the public interest.
Mr Killeen suggested any prison sentence should be suspended.
see-http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/163250/llangollen-man-jailed-for-sex-assault-on-woman-in-his-flat.aspx
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