A convicted rapist
collapsed in shock and dismay after police told him he may have contracted HIV
from the woman he assaulted, according to the BBC.
Richard Thomas, 27, was
sentenced last week to five years and four months for raping a woman while she
slept. He pleaded guilty to the crime July 20.
Thomas "let himself
into her home uninvited in the middle of the night and she awoke to find him
raping her from behind," the UK's Telegraph reports.
"He was arrested and
interviewed and said he had been drinking heavily, taken cocaine and ecstasy
and could not recall the incident," added prosecutors.
Thomas eventually learned
that the woman he attacked is HIV-positive, and even though he has his awful
self to blame, did not take the
news well.
Test results later this
week will show if he contracted the disease.
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