A judge has jailed a man for seven years after he raped a woman he met on a popular dating site.
The Telegraph reports that the 27-year-old had exchanged online messages with the victim before arranging to meet her.
The man, who admitted to being in an “open relationship” with another partner, raped her twice at her home when they met up.
At Burnley Crown Court, Judge Andrew Woolman told the offender that the fact people signed up to the dating site and may have indicated they are open to sexual encounters, “does not mean that they consent to sex regardless”
He also ordered the offender to sign the sex offenders register for life and imposed a 13-year sexual harm prevention order, banning him from logging on to dating websites.
