"Sexual Predator" Jailed For Hotel Room Rape

A rapist, who enticed his victim to a hotel on the promise of seeing 'The Saturdays' in concert - plying her with drink and a mystery pill – has been locked-up for eleven years.

Lloyd Phillips, 48, of Portland Street, Southampton, Hampshire gave the 24 year-old woman a can of super-strength lager during the car journey, plus the pill and bag of powder he said was for the concert.

She later told police things became “hazy” and she suffered hallucinogenic effects in the vehicle, suffering a fit, requiring Phillips to need a wheelchair to transport her to a north-west London hotel room.

Police eventually traced the Wembley hotel, where the defendant took the victim on December 16, 2011, from vague details she was able to recall.

Phillips picked her up from her Southampton home and encouraged her to consume the can of 'Crunk' during the journey.

She recalled parts of the trip and her next memory was waking up in the hotel room twelve hours later, feeling unwell and suffering injuries.

Phillips told her they did not go to the concert and instead had consensual sex.

She later visited a Hampshire hospital and her complaint was passed onto the Metropolitan Police's Sapphire Command

Detective Inspector Jodie Tuff said: "Phillips is clearly a sexual predator who preyed on a vulnerable female, encouraging her to drink alcohol to the point where she was incapacitated before carrying out a sustained sexual attack on her.

“It is highly likely he has committed further offences therefore I would ask anyone with information or who wishes to report an offence to contact 020 8733 3773" 



At Harrow Crown Court Phillips was convicted of two counts of
rape; four counts of assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault.