Champagne loving student taunted his teen victim’s ‘performance’ after sex attack
A ‘PRIVILEGED’ student who sexually assaulted a teenager and blamed her for the vile attack was yesterday jailed for three years.
Felix Beck, 22, collapsed in tears in the dock as he was led away to start his prison term.
He was already under investigation over claims he had raped another woman when he arranged to meet his 18-year-old victim at her hall of residence.
After attacking the fresher in October 2016, University of Edinburgh student Beck later texted her saying he ‘wouldn’t have got aggressive’ if he had been happy with her performance.
He is pictured on student websites swigging champagne in posts praising his sexual prowess.
One site brands Beck the ‘maddest fresher’ and states he will always be found ‘with a bottle of Moet in each hand’.
It states: ‘Daddy’s credit card certainly is loyal.’
At the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday, a judge condemned the student for his ‘sense of sexual entitlement and arrogance’.
The court heard his victim was left bruised and bleeding and suffered post-traumatic stress disorder. She had to switch to another university to complete her studies.
Only weeks before the attack, Beck had been quizzed over a rape allegation involving another woman. He was acquitted over this claim at his trial last month.
It is understood that Beck was allowed to continue his studies and was set to graduate this summer – with a job already lined up for him.
Beck met his victim on dating site Tinder and they had agreed to meet at her hall of residence.
The woman told police she and Beck went to her room and kissed. She told him ‘ to take control’ as she did not want to feel awkward. The woman said she was sexually inexperienced and nervous.
The victim said he carried out a sex act on her and grabbed her round the neck and dug his fingers in. She said: ‘ When he took his hand off my neck I told him I didn’t like that. He didn’t say anything.’ The woman denied that she had asked or suggested that he should choke her.
She said that the sexual contact became non-consensual when he started choking her.
A university lecturer later saw her and noticed she had bruises around her neck. She said the student told her she had invited an acquaintance into her halls of residence and they kissed but at some point he tried to strangle her and forced her into a sex act.
Beck, of Edinburgh, claimed the woman told him she wanted to be spanked and during the encounter asked if he would like to choke her. But a jury found him guilty of sexual assault.
He was cleared of two charges of raping another woman.
Defending, QC John Scott
‘Callous and disgraceful’
urged the court to impose a non- custodial sentence, claiming there was treatment for sex addiction available to Beck if he was released. He added: ‘The comments he made were utterly callous, completely disrespectful and wholly unnecessary.’
But Judge Lord Uist jailed Beck for three years and placed him on the sex offenders’ register for life.
He said: ‘You come from a comfortable, indeed privileged, background and are in the fourth year of your studies.
‘You have only yourself to blame for the situation in which you now find yourself which arises out of the lifestyle you were leading and your sense of sexual entitlement and arrogance. The way you treated your victim both during and after your violent attack was callous and disgraceful.’