Man raped sleeping woman and then claimed he couldn't remember anything

HE WAS LATER TRAPPED FROM TELLTALE DNA EVIDENCE

- By MARK NAYLOR [e-mail] @GTMarkNaylor

AN opportunist sexual predator took advantage of a sleeping woman and raped her while she was slumped on the floor in a house after a night's drinking.

Reuben Wilson was said to have cut open the woman's knickers while she was asleep - and he was later trapped from telltale DNA evidence on scissors and from traces of her bodily fluids inside his boxer shorts, a court heard.

Wilson, 54, of Minster Avenue, Beverley, but recently in custody on remand, denied offences of rape and an alternative of sexual assault. He was convicted by a jury at Grimsby Crown Court on the main charge of rape. The majority verdict of 10 to two was after deliberations of about five hours.

Simon Reevell, prosecuting, said that the woman was earlier out with her boyfriend. She met relatives and then left them before going to a pub where she met three other people, including Wilson. They went back to the home of two of those people after being invited back for drinks.