Woman raped in her sleep secretly taped her attacker as he confessed
A MAN who raped his neighbour in her sleep was jailed after she secretly recorded his confession.
Jade Bailey-Reeks, 21, awoke to find her clothes had been removed despite telling Haydon Davis-Patton earlier: ‘I don’t want to sleep with you.’
The care worker and hairdresser, who has waived her right to anonymity so she can warn other women, had been at home feeling unwell when next-door neighbour Davis-Patton, 23, called around. He said he was locked out and asked to stay the night.
The pair, who had been dating for weeks, shared a double bed but Miss Bailey-Reeks said: ‘I slept as far away from him as possible. I slept in a nightie that went past my knees and I wore some boxer shorts.
‘We hadn’t slept together before and I told him to make it clear “I don’t want to sleep with you”.
‘When I woke up and my clothes were off. I realised straight away he’d had sex with me while I’d been asleep. I couldn’t believe anyone would do that. I was in shock.’
She was unsure whether police would regard it as a sexual assault because they were in the early stages of a relationship.
But a month later she set about obtaining evidence after she found out he had deleted incriminating messages from his phone.
University graduate DavisPatton discussed the incident with Miss Bailey-Reeks, from Newcastle, when he was driving and she was sitting in the back of the car – recording the conversation on her mobile phone. His comments confirmed what he had done and she went to police.
Davis-Patton pleaded guilty to rape and was jailed for four years at Newcastle Crown Court. Passing sentence, Judge Edward Bindloss told him: ‘You betrayed her trust.’
The judge said the victim was vulnerable as she was ill and asleep, and it was DavisPatton’s ‘sense of entitlement’ that led to the rape.
In the phone recording Davis-Patton said: ‘I don’t know why I done it. I’ve got no explanation at all.’
Miss Bailey- Reeks asked him: ‘So how long did it last?’ He responded: ‘A minute, if that’. He stressed he did not go ‘all out’ for 20 minutes.’ Miss Bailey-Reeks replied: ‘You still did it.’
Davis-Patton admitted: ‘I know, I know I did Jade.’
Miss Bailey-Reeks said: ‘I specifically said to you that night I didn’t want sex because I had a bad belly. And then you must have been horny. I don’t know if it’s OK that you did it in my sleep. I don’t know if it’s OK because we’re together.’ He replied: ‘It’s not like I tickled you...You know what I did.’
Miss Bailey-Reeks said: ‘No I don’t because I was sleeping. I’ve been trying to bottle it up but I can’t, because if you did it then what’s going to stop you doing it again?’
Shop worker Davis-Patton responded: ‘Jade I’d never do that again. I don’t know why I’ve done it.’
Miss Bailey-Reeks said she was uncertain what to do at first after the attack in 2017, adding: ‘He said it was normal – that it’s what guys do, that men do it all the time. I now realise what he did was not OK at all. It was rape.’
She added: ‘I want to encourage other women who have experienced this to come forward. No one’s going to call you a liar. I will never get over this and I think he should have been given a harsher sentence. But despite that I feel like I have got my own justice and also a sense of vindication.’
‘You betrayed her trust’