An evil rapist who laughed in a Cork woman’s
face and told her he was HIV positive and suffering from Hepatitis C
has been jailed for nine years.
Zimbabwean
born Lovemore Dube was in Ireland on a South African passport when he
carried out the vicious attack in the summer of 2012.
A
Central Criminal Court hearing in Cork heard that the 25-year-old had
laughed in the woman’s face as he pinned her to a bed and raped her.
The Irish Times reports that the court heard he then told her that he was HIV positive and had hepatitis C.
Dube,
living in Ireland since 2005, pleaded guilty to raping the woman in her
home in Cork, and to the theft of house keys, on July 23rd, 2012.
Justice
Paul Carney told Dube that he had abused the woman’s hospitality by
returning to rape her when she was alone in the house less than an hour
after she and her fiancé had invited him in for coffee as it was
raining.
The judge said: “When he was
left alone with his victim, he effected a long, gratuitously violent and
gratuitously insulting rape which left the victim severely injured and
severely traumatised.”
The court heard
that as well as suffering physical injuries and emotional distress, the
victim had to wait for several stressful days before test results came
back to show she was clear of HIV and Hepatitis.
Justice
Carney said the woman was entitled to ‘safety and sanctuary’ in her own
home and also noted her distress when she learned that Dube had been
found with her house keys.
Sentencing
Dube to nine years imprisonment, with two suspended, he also sentenced
him to three years for the theft of the house keys.
In
her victim impact statement, the woman said she feared that Dube was
going to kill her when, after biting her on her breasts, he put his
hands on her neck and began to choke her as he raped her in the bedroom
of her house.
She said: “I couldn’t
breathe as I was being strangled and I thought I was going to die. I
didn’t want to die like this and I thought his face would be the last
thing I would ever see in this life. I felt I was seconds from death and
I couldn’t do anything about it.
“I
thought I would never see my lovely family again and never see the love
of my life again. I dreaded my family finding me dead like this and
worried about the trauma they would go through.
“I prayed to God, Our Lady, the angels and my late grandmother to save me.
“His
eyes looked evil and they bored into me and he seemed to enjoy my
suffering as he kept laughing. I felt humiliated, powerless, and his
smell repulsed me.”
The victim also revealed how Dube slapped her and called her ‘a bitch’ and ‘a slut’ during the rape.
She
added in the statement how she managed to get enough breath to ask him
how he would feel if somebody did that to his mother or sister and she
managed to distract him and get him off and push him out of the house
and lock him out.
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