February 2017

Dangerous HIV positive sex offender now been released

A HIV positive sex offender that was jailed for eight years in 2012 after he raped a 16-year-old student in a park in Exeter has now been RELEASED!

Paul Stother, who was living in Bristol at the time was found guilty by a jury in his trial of one count of rape and one offence of assault by digital penetration.

Stother was recently spotted as he was being beaten up outside a gay club in Bristol city center

A MAN with HIV has been jailed for eight years after he raped a 16-year-old teenage boy in a park.

Paul Stother, 36 of Union Road, Bristol, left the victim terrified he had contracted the virus and devastated emotionally by the embarrassment of the attack.

The boy was unable to fend off Stother’s advances as he walked home through Northernhay Gardens.

He was forced to give up college because he could not cope with being asked questions about the attack, Exeter Crown Court was told.

The boy had to take anti-retro viral drugs as a precaution until he was cleared of having HIV.

Stother, of Shaftesbury Crusade, Union Road, denied two counts of rape and two of sexual assault.

He was found guilty of one rape and one offence of assault by digital penetration and jailed for eight years.

Judge Mr Justice Butterfield told him: “You fancied this young man, who was only 16.

“You indicated your wish to have some sort of sexual activity with him to others in your group and you determined to have your way.

“The offence you committed is rightly described as the brutal rape.

“These events have almost literally destroyed him.

“There are considerable aggravating features, the most important fact that you are HIV positive.”

Before the sentence Mr Malcolm Galloway, prosecuting, told the judge of the victim impact statement made by the boy

He said: “He says in the 14 months since the attack his whole world has fallen apart. His family has been torn apart and he does not know if it will recover.

“He has left college because he could not bear people asking him constantly about what happened. He has lost family and friends.”

During the case, the boy told how he had been with friends at a party in Exeter and was on his way home when he was followed and attacked.