Midweek Sport

GIRL STUDENT ‘WOKE TO FIND QC’s SON FORCING PENIS INTO HER MOUTH’

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THE son of a high-flying British barrister has appeared in court accused of raping a 20-year-old student.

George Fay, 23, clambered into bed with the woman after she had consensual sex with his friend, who was asleep beside her, prosecutor Sara Sullivan told a jury.

“As she slept next to her friend, she thought she was safe,” she said.

“Instead, she woke up to this man George Fay, a stranger, forcing oral sex as she lay sleeping.”

Fay, whose QC father Michael sits as a deputy high court judge in the Caribbean and is now based in the British Virgin Islands, had spent the night drinking with friends, including his childhood pal Jack Slye.

He gave Slye the keys to his parents’ Upper East Side New York apartment so he could “hook-up” with a casual girlfriend, the court heard. RAPE CHARGE: Fay denies attack “hooked up every now and again”.

Fay, dressed in an expensive charcoal grey suit, blue and white striped shirt and patterned tie, stared intently at his friend as he gave evidence.

He has pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape, sex abuse and committing a criminal sexual act while the victim was ‘physically incapable’ of giving consent.

Fay, once a star lacrosse player at his expensive American boarding school, is on bail but is understood to be wearing an ankle monitor.

The student, whose family now split their time between the Channel Islands, the Virgin Islands and America, was arrested shortly after the alleged attack in July 2016.

Fay’s mother Sofia, a partner in a Caribbean PR company, sat at the back of the court listening to the evidence.

His 53-year-old father, an honorary member of London’s Radcliffe Chambers and now a partner in a top Virgin Islands law firm, was also in court and is expected to give evidence for the defence.

Fay’s lawyer Steve Sirocco told the jury that the woman had given “several versions” of what had happened, including “omissions and distortion­s”.

He told them: “She woke up with a stranger’s penis in her mouth. She gagged? No. She screamed? No. She struggled? No. She fell back to sleep.”

The trial, expected to last two weeks, continues.

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