Man (21) is found guilty of raping and choking woman | Jersey Evening Post

A MAN has been found guilty of raping a woman and choking her until she fell unconscious, following a five-day trial in the Royal Court.The jury spent 5½ hours yesterday returning a verdictThe jury spent 5½ hours yesterday returning a verdict in the case of Alex John Hill (21). He pleaded not guilty to all seven charges he faced and was cleared of two other rape charges and three common-assault charges against the same woman.Hill was found guilty by a majority verdict of the second rape charge he faced, which Crown Advocate Simon Thomas said related to the victim giving evidence that on a number of occasions in 2019 she had asked him to stop during sex and he had not. During the trial, Crown Advocate Simon Thomas, prosecuting, quoted from messages between Hill and the woman on the Snapchat social-media platform, including ‘I was a rapist and I did abuse you but nothing is going to change the past and I am sorry for that’ and ‘No, it wasn’t just once when you asked me to. I did not stop like five times’.And the jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict on the grave and criminal assault charge in which…
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