London, March 29 (IANS) A man, who claimed in the court to be sleepwalking when he raped a teenaged girl, has been jailed for six years in Britain.
Zack Thompson, 20, maintained his defence for two-and-a-half years before finally admitting that he raped the 17-year-old girl at a Portuguese holiday resort in 2009, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
Thompson’s case is thought to be just the second in UK, and the first in England, where a sleepwalking defence has been successfully challenged.
Sentencing Thompson, from Newark, Nottinghamshire county, Judge John Milmo QC said his crime has had a devastating effect on the victim.
