By Grâçia Ada Obi
A man who was caught climbing off an unconscious woman by Police officers has been jailed for 11 years after being found guilty by the Cambridge Crown Court of raping the woman near the City Centre car park.
Police officers caught Matthew Fox, aged 33, climbing off the unconscious victim as she laid on the ground.
CCTV operators had been monitoring the pair as they left a nearby bar and alerted Police after becoming concerned for the woman’s welfare.
Traffic officers found the pair at the top of a ramp to a car park in Cattle Market Road, with Fox climbing off the woman who was laid unresponsive on the ground.
An ambulance was called who took the woman to hospital where she regained consciousness several hours later, and Fox was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.
He denied a charge of rape but a jury unanimously found him guilty following a trial at Cambridge Crown Court earlier this year.
The court heard how the pair were not known to each other but had met whilst drinking in a bar and leaving together.
Fox, of Stumpacre, Bretton, Peterborough, appeared at Cambridge Crown Court last week Friday where he was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
He was also sentenced for perverting the course of justice, after admitting the offence alongside his cousin, Alfie Smith, 27, sister, Jamie-Lee Fox, 37 and mum, Alison Quinn-Gajdur, 58.
Smith, of Black Prince Avenue, Market Deeping, Peterborough, Jamie-Lee Fox, of Cleve Place, Eye, Peterborough, and Quinn-Gajdur, of Stumpacre, Bretton, Peterborough, are all due to be sentenced on Wednesday 9 October.
