Elliot Campinge raped the woman last December 26 after she had fallen asleep in Cardiff's Maldron Hotel on St Mary Street
A 20-year-old man has been jailed for nine years after he was found guilty of attacking and raping a woman on Boxing Day.
Elliot Campinge shook his head and murmured “no” as he was led away at Cardiff Crown Court yesterday to begin his sentence.
Co-defendant Alanzo Falkner, 19, was found not guilty of raping the same woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Falkner and Campinge were visiting Cardiff from Birmingham when they were alleged to have raped the woman in the Maldron Hotel in the centre of the city.
Sentencing, Mr Justice Recorder Geraint Walters told Campinge: “She told you to stop, and you didn’t. You asked her for sex, and she said no.
“So you took to violence, you hit her and you physically manhandled her.
“She was that scared she told you that you could do anything you wanted to her.
“After having unprotected sex you left the room not caring in the least what you had done to her.”
Cardiff Crown Court had previously heard the victim had gone back to the Maldron Hotel on St Mary Street in the early hours of December 27 last year with another man after meeting him in the Revolution bar.
While in his tenth floor hotel room, she was woken by another man entering the room. He was told to leave and the pair continued to have consensual sex but after he left, and she fell asleep.
She said she then woke up being sexually assaulted by Campinge.
When she told him to stop, he refused.
She then said she tried to put her clothes on and said she did not want to have sex with him.
“This angered Campinge. Maybe because others had sex that night, he hadn’t and he knew how that would look to his friends or he was just a man who wanted sex,” said prosecutor Janet McDonald.
When she refused, he hit her with a trainer and then threw other items at her, knocking her to the floor.
At one point, she says he threatened her with an iron.
She offered to perform a sex act on him hoping to distract him so she could run out of the room. As he sat on the bed, she ran for the door but he caught her.
He then threw her to the floor.
Prosecutor Janet McDonald said the victim “submitted out of fear” to his demand for sex.
The prosecution said that DNA evidence proved that before that attack another man, Falkner, had also raped her without her knowledge while she slept.
Falkner had denied a single count of rape and was found not guilty by the jury.
Campinge, who had denied all the charges, was found guilty of assault by penetration, assault by beating and rape.
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