Overview
- He failed to attend his October 24 sentencing at Teesside Crown Court, and Recorder Paul Reid imposed a 10-year prison term in his absence.
- A bench warrant is active to locate him after a previous no-show earlier this month, and his whereabouts remain unknown.
- A jury convicted him in August of rape and sexual assault by penetration after evidence he paid another man to approach the woman in a hotel and later raped her when she refused.
- The court imposed an indefinite restraining order and directed that he must be placed on the sex offenders register once arrested.
- In a statement read in court, the victim described PTSD, loss of career and suicidal despair, and she criticised delays that left him free pending sentence.