Nemesis: defiler In Painful Agony After Realizing His Victim Is HIV Positive

A defiler who was put behind bars today
faces an agonising wait to find out if he has
caught HIV from his victim.
Richard Thomas, 27, collapsed when police
informed him about the woman's medical status
and is still waiting to hear if he has contracted the
incurable virus.
Thomas, of Leigh in Greater Manchester, knew the
woman and was aware that she has another illness
but had not known about the HIV. The court heard
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 the middle of
the night and she awoke to find him defiling her.
'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 that he had committed 'this
dreadful offence' while she lay asleep, having
taken a sleeping tablet, and it had left her
distressed and anxious.
He also ordered him to sign the s*x Offenders
Register for life. Thomas pleaded guilty to defiling
the woman on July 20 this year.
Miss Hayton said that Thomas, who has previous
convictions but none for s*xual offences, is
'remorseful' and 'cannot understand why he did it
and it is troubling him'.
She said that he started using cannabis at the age
of nine, drinking heavily at the age of 11, 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 and he will now be
away from his partner and their young daughter
and his two other older daughters from previous
relationships.
Miss Hayton told the court that Thomas will not
find out the result of his HIV test until Friday and
has had the worry of the outcome hanging over
him.
'It is his own fault, if he had not committed this
offence he would not have placed himself in this
position.'
Source: Dailymail