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A man who raped a woman as she slept has been jailed for four years.
Marti Reynolds, 29, from Essex, carried out the attack in Bournemouth in October 2017, when he was living there, police said.
He was convicted in December at Salisbury Crown Court, and sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday.
Det Con Christopher Panther, of Dorset Police, said Reynolds targeted his victim as she slept and at no point had she given consent .
The force said a woman contacted officers on 27 October 2017 to say Reynolds had admitted to having sexual intercourse with a woman as she slept. He was arrested the same day.
Dorset criminals jailed in February 2021 CRIMINALS jailed in February for Dorset offences include a child rapist, a one-punch killer and a paedophile snared in an undercover police sting. The courts are continuing to operate and deal with cases, including jury trials, despite the current Covid lockdown. The list below includes 11 offenders that were put behind bars by judges last month. Their combined sentences totalled 39 years and six months imprisonment although some of them could be released on licence part way through their time behind bars. All of the criminals committed offences in Dorset, with the cases heard at Bournemouth Crown Court.
The list below includes some of the offenders that were put behind bars by judges during February. The offenders names and a summary of what led to them appearing in the dock are as follows:
Group posed as police officers and kidnapped man
Ashley Beeden (top left), Leslie Richardson (top right), Nigel Moors (bottom left), Lewis Needham (bottom right) were jailed Leslie Richardson, also known as Leslie Ades, aged 53 and of Westcliff-on-Sea, Lewis James Needham, aged 29 and of Dorchester, and Nigel Geoffrey Moors, aged 51 and of Puddletown, were all sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court in late-January after being found guilty at an earlier trial of conspiracy to kidnap, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and blackmail.