House-share rape suspect on trial

In the latest sexual assault case, the trial starts today, Wednesday, in the First Section of the Provincial Court of Cantabria, against a man accused of trying to rape a woman whom he did not previously know.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office brief, the accused entered to live as a tenant in an apartment in which another woman already lived. Slightly affected due to alcohol consumption, he entered the woman’s bedroom and proposed to have sexual relations.

She refused and the defendant then “tried to put fear in her by telling her that he had been in jail for killing a man.” “After grabbing her violently, he threw her on the bed and then undressed himself and the woman,” explains the Public Ministry.

The woman tried to prevent the accused’s action by “struggling and scratching him, while he tried to penetrate her at the same time as he held her tightly on the bed”.

The woman managed to free herself, called the police and explained what happened. When the agents arrived, the accused prevented the woman from opening the door and answering the phone call that the agents made to her.

They finally managed to enter the house when the accused “violently tried again to have sexual relations” with her.

The facts constitute, in the opinion of the Prosecutor’s Office, a crime of attempted rape, with the concurrence of the mitigating circumstance of the criminal responsibility of drunkenness, deserving of three years in prison, eight of supervised release, five of removal and prohibition of communicating with the woman, and another eight of disqualification for employment that involves contact with minors.

The Prosecutor’s Office also proposes replacing the prison sentence with expulsion from the country, since the accused is a foreign national.

In terms of civil liability, it considers that the defendant must compensate the woman in 10,000 euro for the physical and moral damages caused.

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