A 49 year old man who raped a Leeds prostitute has had his appeal to get his conviction overturned rejected.
Abdul Fulat of Town Street, Batley Carr, was jailed for eight years at Leeds Crown Court back in September last year after being found guilty of rape.
He previously admitted supplying the victim with crack cocaine, but was cleared by the jury of giving her heroin and sexually assaulting her.
Fulat’s lawyers challenged his rape conviction on the basis that the jury’s verdicts were “logically inconsistent” for if the jury could acquit on the charges of supplying heroin and the other sex attack, Fulat could not therefore be found guilty of rape.
But at the Court of Appeal in London, Judge David Aubrey QC said it was possible for the jury to reach the verdicts it did, Fulat initially denied having had any sexual contact with the victim but he later asked to retake the stand so he could change his story and say the victim consented – which the jury was “entitled” to disbelieve.
The appeal was dismissed.
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