A London City trader has been jailed for six years for raping a woman as she attempted to sleep under her desk after an office party.
Daniel Green, 26, attacked the woman, in her 20s, after she lay down under a desk in the early hours of 16 May last year.
Green, of Walthamstow, east London, insisted the sex was consensual but an Old Bailey jury convicted him of rape on Friday, by a majority of 11 to one, after deliberating for six hours. He gave no reaction as the verdict was delivered.
The pair met during after-work drinks in the City of London and went back with a group of Green’s colleagues to the StratX stockbrokers’ offices near Monument, where he had recently started work.
While there, partygoers danced on desks, drank champagne and took lines of cocaine into the early hours, the court heard.
After most people had gone home, the victim told jurors she became tired and decided to take a nap under a desk, intending to catch the first train home because she did not have enough money for a taxi.
Wiping away tears, she described how she woke up to find Green tugging her trousers down and asked him “What the fuck are you doing?”.
“At that point I remember just trying to crawl forward to get away. I knew what was going to happen. I remember being pulled back,” she told the jury. “The next thing I remember was Daniel raping me. I just kept saying ‘No, no, no, no, no, no’ but it absolutely didn’t stop anything.”
The woman rang her best friend from the office and she alerted police, who arrested Green. He insisted the sex was consensual and that he stopped when she began to cry as he thought he was causing pain.
The prosecutor, Timothy Forster, dismissed Green’s account, saying he had treated his victim like a “piece of meat”.
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