'Giggling' rapist who carried out sex attack on drugged woman caught after confessing his guilt during secret recording

Desmond Robinson sexually assaulted the woman after the pair had been smoking crack cocaine together and she let him stay on the floor at her home.

David Bradshaw, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court that Robinson, 52, had been told by the woman that she was not interested in him.

The incident took place on October 29 last year after they took the class A drug.

The woman also took a sleeping pill due to toothache she had been suffering.

She made up a bed on the floor for Robinson, and she then went to bed.

She woke up to find Robinson in bed with her carrying out the sex attack.

The victim jumped out of bed and punched him. Robinson began giggling and then apologised.

She called the police and Robinson was arrested.

However, a friend of the victim had secretly recorded Robinson admitting having sex without her consent in the moments after the attack.

Robinson, of the Royal Sovereign Hotel, Wakefield Road, Normanton, eventually admitted a charge of rape.

He has 13 previous convictions, including indecent assault on a 14-year-old in the 1980s and indecent exposure offences from 2004 and 2005.

He was the subject of a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) at the time of the rape.

Rukhshanda.Hussain, mitigating, said Robinson fully understood what he had done and that he was heavy drug user.

"He did have feelings for her and he simply did not think it through."

Judge Simon Batiste gave Robinson an extended sentence of 12 and a half years.

He must serve a custodial term of seven and a half years followed by an extended five-year period on licence.

Judge Batiste said: "She was clearly a vulnerable person.

"You do present as a dangerous person."