Paul Cecil Davenport has been sentenced to eight years' jail for drugging and raping a man, and warned he faces preventive detention if he offends again.
In the Christchurch District Court, Judge David Holderness also imposed a four-year minimum non-parole period on the 49-year-old beneficiary. In spite of pleading guilty just before his trial was due to start, Davenport denies both offences.
He was sentenced on a charge of sexual violation of a man aged 36, and a charge of wilfully stupefying the victim without lawful justification or excuse.
Judge Holderness said the victim's drink had been spiked with anti-epilepsy drug Rivotril when the two met by chance in a central Christchurch bar. The victim went back to Davenport's home and woke during the night to find that Davenport was in bed with him and anal intercourse was taking place.
Judge Holderness said of Davenport's previous convictions: "If you were to commit any further offences of sexual misconduct, you would be very much at risk of a sentence of preventive detention."
Jail for drug rape of man
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