University graduate who sexually assaulted drunk woman avoids jail trends now
A university graduate who sexually assaulted a woman outside a student bar as she blacked out on his lap has avoided jail.
Louis Woods, 28, from Wandsworth, touched the complainant intimately in the Birkbeck University bar in Bloomsbury, central London, on March 18, 2019.
The victim had downed Guinness, rum, Jagermeister and vodka and went outside to the bar’s smoking area to get some air when she was assaulted, Wood Green Crown Court heard.
Woods denied two charges of assault by penetration and said he was left ‘heartbroken’ by the woman’s allegations.
But he was convicted of two counts of penetration by a jury following a trial.
Louis Woods, pictured, 28, from Wandsworth was convicted of two counts of assault by penetration by a jury
He touched the complainant intimately in the Birkbeck University bar in Bloomsbury, central London, on March 18, 2019 (pictured)
Woods was sentenced to two years imprisonment suspended for two years. In that time he must carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and attend 40 days rehabilitation activity.
He will remain on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years.
Liam Gregory, prosecuting, earlier told jurors: ‘She did not consent to a sexual act... Mr Woods could not reasonably believe there was consent when he carried out this act.’
The complainant said she had one pint of Guinness, two shots of rum, a Jager shot and two double vodka lemonades on an empty stomach.
During police interview she said: ‘I don’t recall how I got outside, I just know I felt ill.
‘I still don’t know the reason he went outside with me. Most of the time I was unconscious,
