Cricketer sentenced

AUSTRALIAN cricketer Alex Hepburn, who treated a “dozing” woman whom he raped in his teammate’s bedroom like a “piece of meat”, has been jailed for five years.

Hepburn, 23, was convicted after an attack he carried out during a sexual conquest “game” he helped to set up on a WhatsApp group.

The former Worcestershire county all-rounder was said by the prosecution to have been “fired up” by the contest to sleep with the most women, before carrying out the rape at his flat in Portland Street, Worcester, on April 1, 2017.