A former West End socialite, who recorded himself raping an unconscious woman at a £30m mansion, has been caged for eight years.
Alex King, 43, who supplied drugs and hookers to the VIP party scene, was incriminated by the recording he made twelve years ago.
He pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to raping the woman at 32 Portland Place, Marylebone on July 27, 2007.
The victim met King outside a nightclub that evening and accepted his invitation to a party, where they had consensual sex.
One of King’s friend’s filmed him having sex with the drunken woman, who can be heard saying: “Stop it,” on noticing the recording.
A second recording, made by King himself at approximately 6am, clearly showed him having sex with the unconscious woman.
She did not move, open her eyes or make any noises during intercourse.
She was fully clothed, save her underwear and her glasses were perched on her forehead.
The recording was deleted by King, but using specialist software his girlfriend recovered it and handed the evidence over to police.
The victim was “horrified” when shown the footage, suggesting she may have been drugged by the group of well-spoken, friendly men, who claimed to be gay when she met them.
At the time she felt unable to face a court case and called off her wedding, but fortunately her and her fiancé reunited and have been married for a decade.
A second count of attempted rape at the 24-bedroom Grade II listed Edwardian property near BBC HQ, was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.
The address, currently registered to offshore company, is the new venue for sex parties hosted by disgraced fraudster ‘Lord’ Eddie Davenport, 53.
King, currently serving eleven years imprisonment, has been described as Davenport’s former press agent.
Judge Deborah Taylor, the Recorder of Westminster told King: “What is clear from the footage you, yourself filmed on the camera is that you had vaginal sex with her when she was unconscious, she doesn’t move during the sexual intercourse.
“There is no doubt you took advantage of a young woman who drank too much and you didn’t care about what you did, but were callous and filmed that rape.”
He is already a convicted sex offender, who failed to sign the sex offenders’ register after being convicted fifteen years ago of having child pornography on his phone.
King went on the run after drugs police raided his home and arrested him on June 29, 2016, while sharing a bed with his wife.
He was sentenced to eleven years for drug dealing last January while on the run, but was finally caught last June in Marylebone.
The drugs included cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine.
He was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs; one charge of conspiracy to supply Class B drugs and one count of conspiracy to supply Class C drugs.
During the police raid officers seized a block of 90% pure cocaine, MDMA powder, ecstasy pills bearing the Just East logo, crack cocaine, ketamine and diazepam.
Estimated to have a street value of £60,000, the drugs were stored in safe.
He will begin serving this eight-year sentence once he has completed half of his current one.
King has been involved in several bizarre incidents, including sparking a Salisbury-style major incident similar to the Novichok poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
He had made the false claim in September, last year that he was poisoned in a branch of Prezzo, while dining with wife Anna.
The month before King and his wife were rescued by the RNLI after running out of fuel in their boat off the Welsh coast.
His friend Davenport was jailed for seven years and eight months for a multi-million pound fraud, but following his early release from prison due to ill-health is back on the party scene.
These events are held at 32 Portland Place, across the road from ‘Fast Eddie’s’ former party HQ at number 33.
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