A former West End socialite will be sentenced on December 17 after he recorded himself raping an unconscious woman at a £30m mansion.
Alex King, 43, who supplied drugs and hookers to the VIP party scene, was incriminated by his own recording, made on a digital camera twelve years ago.
He pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to raping the woman at 32 Portland Place, Marylebone on July 27, 2007.
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.
Today, Judge Deborah Taylor, the Recorder of Westminster ordered a probation service report to asses King’s level of ‘dangerousness’ and whether an extended prison sentence needs to be passed.
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.
“There is a history of non-compliance,” prosecutor Mr. Paul Casey told the court, after King avoided pre-sentence probation interviews in prison.
“The offence he falls to be sentenced for today is a serious one and it is not his first offence of a sexual nature.”
King claims he didn’t see the probation service because his mother was visiting him at the time, but four attempts to interview him failed.
He still faces an extended prison sentence on top of the eleven years he is currently serving after Judge Taylor told him: “The court is considering this very seriously, considering the history.”
King, wearing a light blue short-sleeved shirt and black jeans, was supported in court by his Russian lingerie model wife Anna Shapiro, 31, who chatted to him through the reinforced dock security glass.
Judge Taylor said: “In the circumstances I am giving him one more opportunity to comply with the order I made to meet with the probation officer.
“It takes priority over everything else. No excuses.”
On sentencing day the judge will view the rape recording privately on a laptop, but said: “Part of it, not all of it, given the nature.”
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.
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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