Drunk woman was raped as she slept

Published on Saturday 11 February 2012 01:01

A NIGERIAN man has been convicted of raping a drunk Scottish woman while she slept.

Kazeem Kadiri sneaked into the woman’s bed in the middle of the night after being rejected by another partner with whom he and a friend were having a threesome.

A jury at the High Court in Livingston heard his 29-year-old victim admit she had well over 20 drinks at a birthday celebration on the night of the offence.

The Edinburgh office worker, who gave her evidence from behind a screen in closed court, said she had gone to bed very drunk.

During the night, she thought she was having a “pleasurable erotic dream” and admitted to becoming aroused in her sleep.

But she wakened to find a man lying on top of her, told him to “get the f*** off” her and pushed him away.

He put on his trousers in the darkened room and left.

She called police the morning after the attack at a house in Livingston, West Lothian, in November 2010.

During the trial, the jury heard forensic evidence that 38-year-old Kadiri’s DNA matched samples taken from the woman’s body.

Kadiri, 38, whose address was given as HM Prison Edinburgh, denied rape and claimed his victim had consented to sex.

Judge Lady Stacey deferred sentence for social work reports and ordered Kadiri to be placed on the sex offenders’ register.