Jailed, barrister’s son who raped sleeping student
THE son of a British barrister was yesterday sentenced to ten years in jail for raping a university student as she slept.
George Fay, 23, was told by Judge Melissa Jackson he carried out the attack in a ‘coldly calculating manner’.
In a court statement university dropout Fay said his actions were ‘heinous crimes’.
Fay, who was born in London and attended American boarding schools, attacked the 20-year-old woman after she had a drunken tryst with his childhood friend, Jack Slye, and was sleeping next to him. He denied three charges of rape, sex abuse and committing a criminal sexual act while the woman was ‘physically incapable’ of giving consent.
But after a two-week trial, a jury at New York Supreme Court found him guilty on all counts.
Judge Jackson told Fay, who had been on suicide watch until his sentencing, that he went into the bedroom ‘knowing full well’ what he was going to do.
Fay, the eldest son of British barrister Michael Fay and public relations executive wife Sofia, was an intern at the city’s Parks and Recreation Department at the time.
The court heard that on the night in July 2016 Fay had been drinking and smoking cannabis before he returned to his flat in Manhattan’s Upper East Side around 4am. He was ‘looking for sex’ and had tried nine times to call prostitutes, the court was told.
After his ten-year sentence, he will be on supervised release for five years and become a registered sex offender in the US.