A takeaway manager wept in court after he subjected a woman to a terrifying sex attack in a hotel.
Stefanita Mosescu had been on a night out in Nottingham city centre on November 3 last year, before following the victim back to a hotel. He grabbed her in the lift and once in the hall, moved along the second floor where his room was.
The 42-year-old pushed her against a wall and onto the floor. The incident was captured on CCTV, showing Mosescu trying to carry her to his room, as she was seen grabbing hold of the door. Afterwards, she went to the hotel's reception and asked for the police to be called.
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Mosescu, of Mercer Drive, Liverpool, was arrested a short time later and initially tried to claim what happened was consensual. He also said he was drunk at the time and couldn’t remember what had happened. However, faced with overwhelming evidence against him, he later pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault.
At his sentence hearing on Friday, May 12, his victim bravely read her statement where she described the incident as one of the most extreme to happen in her life. "I was so overpowered by him", she said.
The woman described having a piece of her taken away, and said "I may never be the whole me again". Steven Gosnell, mitigating, said married Mosescu was of previous good character.
"He was very much in drink," he added. "That's no excuse. He has been a hard-working man and that has been taken away. He simply can't explain the man on that screen (meaning the CCTV) - but he accepts responsibility".
Judge Stuart Rafferty KC sentenced him to seven years and two months for offences of assault by penetration and sexual assault. Mosescu pleaded guilty to the charges, and is now on the sex offender register for life.
Judge Rafferty said: "Only you can truly know what was in your mind on the night that you violated that lady, and violated is the correct term to use. Because you did not abuse her simply once, you abused her repeatedly.
"It was an indication what her frame of mind was that she was holding her mobile phone in her hand all the time this was happening. She couldn't use it. She was fixed on it. In my judgement, she was fixed on it because she was trying to put from her mind what was happening.
"What you did to her has changed her life and it has changed yours. There is not much point standing here weeping now and feeling sorry for yourself - you did not feel any sorrow for her then, not a shred".
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