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No always means no.
That’s the message from officers after a man was jailed for 14 years for raping a teenage girl he’d just met.
Bailey Stubbs talked to the girl – who was under 16 - on Snapchat before meeting her in person in December 2021, where he supplied her with alcohol and took her back to his home in Murton.
Once there, the 22-year-old sexually assaulted the girl several times and forced her to have sex with him, despite her repeatedly telling him ‘no’.
Stubbs also strangled the girl and spat in her face.
When the terrified girl told Stubbs she wanted to go home, he told her she couldn’t leave and that he would take her home in the morning.
The brave girl managed to alert her parents who called police and Stubbs was arrested that night.
He was charged with several offences, including four counts of sexual assault, rape, assault, and false imprisonment, which he denied.
However, a jury sitting at Durham Crown Court found Stubbs guilty of the offences earlier this year and he returned to court on Friday (May 9) where he was jailed for 14 years.
He was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely and handed a restraining order preventing him from contacting the girl.