Coventry man jailed for six years after sexually abusing Solihull woman

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A Coventry man who took a drunken young Solihull woman back to his home, where he sexually abused her, has been jailed for six years



Myles Kearney of Ashmore Road, Radford, was also ordered to register as a sex offender for life by a judge at Warwick Crown Court.

The 25-year-old denied raping his victim and an alternative charge of assaulting her by penetration.

After more than eight hours at the end of his trial, the jury cleared him of the rape charge – but found him guilty by a unanimous verdict of assault by penetration.

Jailing Kearney, Judge Anthony Potter told him: “Because she was so drunk, she could not recall how she met you. It must have been obvious she was in a particularly vulnerable state.

“The very last thing she was interested in was any form of sexual activity.”

“You made a number of phone calls, including one to a friend asking him to pick you up and bring some Viagra.

“In my opinion you had formed an intention to commit a far more serious sexual offence than the one you eventually committed.

“You ignored the protestation that she simply wanted to go home, and you sought to persuade her she was home and pulled her out of the taxi. She was miles from home, drunk and alone.

“What you did when you got her back to your house is far from clear, but must have involved getting her upstairs and into your bedroom where I am quite satisfied you sexually assaulted her, beginning at a stage when she was unconscious.

“When she woke the following morning, unaware where she was, you showed her absolutely no compassion.

“You went on to further humiliate her when you took at least one picture of her when she was in a state of undress and shouting at her when she was leaving, at the same time you were distributing to people in a group chat pictures you had taken of her naked and in a state of distress.”