A Melbourne man has been jailed for two years after he sexually assaulted his partner’s twin sister and accused her of making up the allegation.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was on Friday sentenced to four years in prison, with a minimum of two years, after a jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault.
The 24-year-old ‘took the cowardly way out’ by denying what happened and accusing his partner’s twin of lying at trial, a Victorian County Court judge said.
A Melbourne man has been jailed for at least two years after he sexually assaulted his partner’s twin sister and accused her of making up the allegation (stock photo)
‘Instead of owning up and taking responsibility and trying to make amends, you denied it,’ she said.
‘You reduced her reputation, attacked her honesty, blamed her, and ruined her relationship with her twin.’
The judge said the man’s conduct had effectively forced his partner to choose between him and her sister.
She chose to stand by him.
The twin was sexually assaulted after her sister’s partner came into the guest bedroom to talk to her.
‘She told you to stop but you continued,’ the judge said.
A jury found the 24-year-old guilty of rape and sexual assault, with a Victorian County Court (pictured) judge saying the man ‘took the cowardly way out’ by denying what happened
The man had reportedly told his partner he had sexually touched her twin, but that she was the initiator and she had ‘sexually violated’ him (stock photo)
The twin pushed the man away and told him to tell her sister, or she would.
He told his partner he had sexually touched the twin, but that she was the initiator and she had ‘sexually violated’ him.
The man’s partner asked her sister not to report it to police.
‘By reporting it to police I was made to feel that I did something wrong, and my ability to trust and love has been diminished,’ the twin said in her victim impact statement.
At trial, the defence suggested the twin was jealous of her sister’s life and relationship with the man.
The defence also said the twin was motivated to make a false rape allegation because she wanted attention from an ex-boyfriend who ‘had so unceremoniously dumped her’.
The jury’s verdict shows they rejected these accounts, the judge said.
‘I would never have reported this to the police had he just apologised,’ the twin said.
‘All I ever wanted was for him to say ‘sorry’ and admit what he had done to me.’