TODAY MAY 14th
PAUL ABERCROMBIE, MAYFAIR HOTEL CONCIERGE, GUILTY OF RAPING GUEST
MAYFAIR, CENTRAL LONDON; A concierge at a five-star Mayfair hotel faces jail today (tues) for trying to smother an advertising executive with a pillow after sneaking into her room to molest her. Paul Abercrombie, 24, pounced on the American, punching her repeatedly before dragging her onto the bed and sexually assaulting her at the Westbury Hotel in Conduit Street. The woman, who lost a tooth and suffered a black eye, feared she would die as Abercrombie tried to smother her but bravely fought back until he fled, Southwark Crown Court heard. A jury of eight women and four men took almost 13 hours to convict Abercrombie of attempted rape, sexual assault, committing an offence, namely assault occasioning actual bodily harm, with intent to commit a sexual offence and trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence.
AND LAST MONTH APRIL 19th
Soby John: Hotel porter who raped TV star in her room jailed for 10 year
He took advantage of the celeb because she was so drunk she could hardly stand and then took intimate photographs of her on mobiles
A night porter who raped a TV star in her hotel room after a friend’s birthday party was jailed for ten years today.
Soby John, 25, took advantage of the woman celeb because she was so drunk she could hardly stand and then took intimate photographs of her on her iPhone and on his mobile.
The court heard that Indian-born John was in Britain on a student visa which had expired.
However, although he was due for deportation, he was allowed to work as a night porter at the five-star hotel in west London.
Jailing him at London’s Southwark crown court, Judge Alistair McCreath said the trauma had forced the victim to become anxious and lose trust in men.
He told John: “This victim was highly intoxicated and I have no doubt at all that you raped her for precisely that reason.
John had taken a picture of her semi naked on her phone and had used it to send text messages.
In addition, he took pictures on his phone, which has never been recovered, and made it appear that they had exchanged their personal numbers.
Peter Higginson, defending, told the court that John was a “naive young man floundering in a culture which he hasn’t quite come to terms with.”
Judge McCreath ordered that John be deported when he has served his sentence.