Locations
Golden Grove, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14
Description
A man has been jailed for the rape of a woman at a house in Southampton earlier this year.
Thomas Antony Drew, 26, of Golden Grove, appeared at Southampton Crown Court yesterday (Thursday 5 September) where he was sentenced to three years and four months in prison. He will also be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order with strict conditions for seven years, and will have a restraining order, meaning he will not be able to make contact with the victim for 15 years.
The woman involved, who is in her 30s, reported to police that in the early hours of Tuesday 27 February she was with Drew at a house in Southampton when he forced himself upon her and raped her.
An investigation was launched by Southampton’s Amberstone unit, which specialises in reports of rape and serious sexual assault, and Drew was arrested and subsequently charged.
At a Southampton Crown Court hearing in July he pleaded guilty to one count of rape and one count of sexual assault by penetration.
In a statement read to the court, the victim said that Drew had abused her trust in the most devastating way imaginable, and that what happened to her had impacted both her mental and physical health.