CRIMINAL DIVISION
The Strand London WC2A 2LL |
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B e f o r e :
(Lord Judge)
MR JUSTICE COLLINS
and
MR JUSTICE GRIFFITH WILLIAMS
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KENNY MARTYN LEWIS |
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THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE: I shall ask Mr Justice Collins to give the judgment of the court.
MR JUSTICE COLLINS:
"I accept of course the jury's verdict acquitting you of the rape of [R]; equally, however, I reject your assertions as to what happened on each of the three relevant occasions. I have no doubt at all that because of her occupation as a lap dancer you were encouraged to believe that she was a promising target for the only thing that you had in mind. Equally, I am quite sure that, as she said, you told her not to bother to make any complaint because nobody would believe the word of a stripper. Also, she was palpably honest in her description of the handcuffs that you produced and used to secure her wrists. It may not have been rape, but it fell little short of rape; she was at best grudgingly compliant. You used her, and you used your position as a police officer to get what you wanted. When she made it quite clear that she did not want any more to do with you, you continued to pester and harass her with phone calls, and you called uninvited and unwanted at her home, pestering her for sex."
The judge also referred to her evidence that the appellant had accessed pornography on her husband's computer.
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