Ten years for 'wicked' hotel porter who raped a celebrity guest after sneaking into her bedroom while she slept

A television star was raped in her hotel room by an Indian porter who was awaiting deportation, a court heard yesterday.

Soby John, 25, was jailed for ten years after admitting breaking into the victim’s room at a top London hotel and forcing himself on her as she slept, in what the judge described as a ‘wicked’ attack.

The star had been drinking heavily in a West End club with friends that evening and was ‘unable to defend herself’.

John, who was living in Wembley,  had entered the UK on a student visa but it had expired
and he was due to be deported back to India.

He had been granted shift work at the hotel through an agency on the night of the attack last year. 

The court heard he used his position as a porter to get a copy of the electronic key to the victim’s room after seeing her stumbling in the corridor and being helped to bed by a female friend in the early hours of October 24.

Lesley Jones, prosecuting, said John entered the victim’s room using the key and raped her as she lay in bed.

She said: ‘(The victim) had woken during the night to find an Asian man on top of her having sex with her.’ 

The victim ‘felt immobilised and unable to defend herself’, she said, adding: ‘She said she felt his hand on her neck as she pushed him away but then she drifted into unconsciousness.’

After raping her, John took a photograph on her iPhone and intimate photographs of her on his own phone.

In an attempt to make the rape appear consensual, he also sent a message from her phone to his, saying: ‘Hey John you enjoy me thanks’.

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