The man twice raped and sexually assaulted the 19-year-old.
who raped a young Japanese woman he had hired to clean his rural property has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.
James Lithgow twice raped and sexually assaulted the 19-year-old, who spoke little English, in a caravan next to his home inCounty Court Judge Fran Dalziel said the now 46-year-old should have been aware a young woman being agreeable and friendly did not amount to an invitation to sexual activity.Lithgow was convicted by a jury of two charges each of rape and sexual assault, but acquitted of other charges including false imprisonment and attempted rape.
He had claimed that he believed the woman was consenting, telling police “I’m not silly, I can tell when there’s a good feeling going on”. Lithgow also described his kissing and touching of the young woman as normal drunken behaviour, prompting the judge’s disagreement in a pre-sentence hearing. “Just no. It’s not normal behaviour to start kissing and having sex with someone just because you’re drunk,” she said.A County Court judge has told a rapist that a woman is entitled to say no for any reason.She noted Lithgow had only stopped his sexual advances on the woman after she told him she had a boyfriend.“Does a boyfriend somehow make you less available to have sex?” she asked, adding that a woman is entitled to say no for any reason, including that she just doesn’t want to.
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