The rape happened on Nottingham Trent University's Clifton campus
A student at Nottingham Trent University who claimed he suffered from "sexsomnia" raped a fellow student and carried out a sex attack on a second. Following a near-two week trial at Nottingham Crown Court, a jury took a matter of hours to find Luke Fox guilty of rape and assault by penetration against the two victims, one of whom he abused following a party on the university’s Clifton campus.
“I am ordering a pre-sentence report to look at one aspect only and that is whether you present a danger to women.” “ decided that it was best not to create a scene, in the hope that would be an end to this unwanted contact, and she fell back asleep. But that was not the end of the matter, as describes being woken having been penetrated and in her words ‘waking up to him raping me’.”
“ said that in the early afternoon, Fox asked to speak with her. He was very upset and highly apologetic about his previous behaviour. The defendant then went on to tell that he believed that he suffered from ‘sexsomnia’ and offered some explanation as to what he said such a condition entailed – in effect that whilst in a state of sleep he could engage in sexual activity of which he had no knowledge or indeed control.
The prosecutor said: “In his police interview, the defendant stated that he believes that he suffers from 'sexsomnia'. He told the police that this was effectively a self-diagnosis and that although he said he had carried out extensive online research into the condition, he had not seen any expert medical or other practitioner.
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