A SECURITY guard who protected celebs like Stacey Solomon and Katie Price has been locked up after posing as a taxi driver and sexually assaulting a passenger. Dominic Spiteri, 53, spiked his 24-year-old victim’s drink before driving her to a secluded lay-by and carrying out a violent indecent assault. His victim told a jury that […]
A SECURITY guard who protected celebs like Stacey Solomon and Katie Price has been locked up after posing as a taxi driver and sexually assaulting a passenger.
Dominic Spiteri, 53, spiked his 24-year-old victim’s drink before driving her to a secluded lay-by and carrying out a violent indecent assault.
His victim told a jury that she felt ‘mangy’ and ‘totally out of it’ as she left the Vudu Lounge nightclub, in York city centre.
Spiteri worked as a bodyguard for big names like Katie Price, One Direction, Lee Evans, Jason Manford, Keith Lemon and Clare Balding
York Crown Court heard that he approached his victim, said he was a taxi driver and offered to take her home on ‘mates rates’.
Once they were alone in his car, he started molesting her and took her to a lay-by in the countryside, where he was so forceful that she was in pain for days afterwards.
She said she couldn’t stop him because of the state she was in but kept saying ‘no’.
Spiteri, who worked as a doorman at city centre clubs, denied claiming to be a taxi driver or spiking her drink.
He claimed from the witness box that she had introduced him to her friends inside the club and flirted with him and initiated sexual contact in the car.
Spiteri denied witness statements that the victim had vomited when they reached the hotel where her friends were staying.
The jury convicted Spiteri, of Parliament Street, Norton, of sexual assault.
“The victim was particularly vulnerable due to her personal circumstances,” Judge Simon Batiste told Spiteri. “She was alone in a “taxi” with you, late at night where she was obviously clearly incapable due to her intoxicated state. You took advantage of that.
“You have not shown one shred of remorse for your behaviour.
“This was a horrible attack.”
You have not shown one shred of remorse for your behaviour
The judge
He jailed Spiteri for seven years, made a lifelong sexual harm prevention order forbidding him to have a woman alone with him in a car or contacting the victim in any way and put him on the sex offenders’ register for life.
The victim cried as the jury returned their verdict at the end of a four-day trial.
The judge said she had suffered “considerable psychological harm” .
In a personal statement she said she felt violated, now couldn’t trust men and didn’t like to be alone with any man.
Keith Allen, for Spiteri, said he was now suffering from depression and under the care of a psychiatrist.
The victim told the jury she had been reluctant to go to the police initially because she had had a bad experience when she had been a complainant in a different case.
The jury heard that the original police officer in charge of the Spiteri case had been taken off it.
The victim said the officer had not carried out basic investigations or arranged for her to give her evidence via video link, as is standard in sex cases.
The jury heard a second officer took over the case and gathered the evidence against Spiteri.
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