A man has admitted sexually assaulting a woman while she slept after a night out in Kenilworth.
Michael Leslie had pleaded not guilty at Warwick Crown Court to a more serious sexual assault charge.
But at a pre-trial review hearing prosecutor Sarah Buckingham asked for a third charge of sexual assault to be added to the indictment.
Lesli
e, aged 25, of Burnham Road, Coventry, then pleaded guilty to that charge which detailed that he had touched his victim sexually without her consent.
Miss Buckingham said that he and his victim were staying at another person’s home in Kenilworth after they had all been drinking.
She said: “He went into the bedroom where she was sleeping. He took off his pyjama bottoms, lay on top of her and touched her.”
Christopher Henley, defending, asked for the case to be adjourned for a pre-sentence report to be prepared on Leslie, whom he described as an ‘impressive young man.’
Mr Henley said: “It is terribly unfortunate. All parties had had far too much to drink, especially Mr Leslie. He never challenged the reliability or integrity of the complainant, he simply said he could not remember. It will be my submission not to send Mr Leslie to prison, at least not immediately.”
Adjourning the case for the report to be prepared on Leslie and granting him bail, Judge Christopher Hodson ordered him to register as a sex offender. And he warned Leslie: “In granting you bail, I am not making any promises as to what the sentence will be.”
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