Overview
- Hereford Crown Court imposed a four years and six months prison term after a jury’s October 27, 2025 guilty verdict for inflicting grievous bodily harm.
- Prosecutors said Davis failed to disclose his HIV status to the woman and disengaged from care, with clinic attendance ending in September 2018 and medication deliveries stopping after September 2019.
- Scientific testing matched the victim’s infection to the same HIV strain as Davis, while police recovered a 2019 pill bottle with unused medication and a 2021 admission confirmed he had stopped taking it.
- The judge described his conduct as selfish and utterly irresponsible and identified an element of premeditation in the decision not to inform the victim.
- The victim reported lasting mental-health harms and called the diagnosis a life sentence, as the CPS emphasized that proper antiretroviral therapy prevents transmission.