Adam Coles has been jailed for six years
Rapist Adam Coles(Image: Hull Live)
A woman on a night out was forcefully raped by a drunken man who completely ignored her repeated requests to stop what he was doing and leave her alone. Adam Coles made “sexual advances” towards the victim and left her feeling “overpowered” by him – despite her desperate attempts to push him away from her.
He later tried to talk his way out of trouble by telling the police that he would “not be stupid enough to go down that road” and claiming that he had not done anything, Hull Crown Court heard. Coles, 36, of Liberty Park, Brough, denied offences of rape, sexual assault and causing a woman to engage in sexual activity, in Hull, but he was convicted by a jury after a trial.
Stephen Robinson, prosecuting, said that the woman texted a female friend to say that she had been sexually assaulted by Coles the night before. She had gone out to mark the anniversary of the death of her grandfather and she had been drinking. During a series of text messages, the woman told her friend that Coles started to “make sexual advances” towards her and that he tried to kiss her and pull her onto him.
“She felt overpowered,” said Mr Robinson. “She was unable to get him off. She tried to push him away from her and told him to stop several times but he wouldn’t.”
Coles later claimed that he could not remember anything about what happened. The woman went to a sexual health clinic and she had to go back for emergency contraception, said Mr Robinson.
In the text messages, the woman told her friend: “He tried to kiss me. I stopped him. I freaked.
“It went further. I told him to stop. I told him: ‘You can’t do this’. I kept pushing him off. He kept wanting me to do stuff to him. He kept kissing me.”
The friend told the woman: “You need to report it.” The woman later went to a police station to report the incident. Coles went voluntarily to Clough Road police station, Hull, after he heard that officers were looking for him, said Mr Robinson.
Coles told police: “I know I didn’t do it, for starters. I didn’t do it. I didn’t do anything. She tried to accuse me of doing this. I will still stand my ground and say I haven’t done anything.
“She is just saying a lot of hurtful things. I am saying: ‘No, I didn’t do it.’ I am as surprised as anyone. I would not be stupid enough to go down that road.
“I don’t know what her motive is. I don’t know why she is doing this. I know I didn’t do it. Nothing happened. I never had that thought of doing that.”
Coles, who had been on bail during the trial, was jailed for six years. He will have to register as a sex offender indefinitely and he will have to pay a £187 victims’ surcharge.
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