A pub owner in London has been sentenced to more than a decade behind bars after raping a male customer who passed out in his bar.
56-year-old John Coyne (pictured), owner of the Prince of Wales pub in London, was convicted of rape and engaging in sexual activity without consent after taking advantage of a 25-year-old man who had blacked out after a hard night of drinking in October of last year.
The victim, who identifies as heterosexual, told the jury at a Blackfriars Crown Court that he had gone out with some friends after work one evening. The group ended up at Coyne’s pub, where he eventually fell asleep on a sofa.
He awoke at around 3 a.m. with his pants pulled down around his ankles and Coyne on top of him, raping him.
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Coyne immediately fled the scene. Meanwhile, the victim called police, who seized security camera footage from the venue that corroborated the victim’s story.
Despite this damning evidence against him, Coyne still denied the charges. He was found guilty by a jury yesterday.
Following the verdict, Detective Constable Neil Hume, the officer in the case, told the media: “Coyne abused his position as a landlord of a pub to take advantage of an unconscious customer and showed no remorse. I would applaud the victim’s bravery attending court and hope that the sentence sends out a clear message.”
Detective Inspector Neil Smithson, the senior investigating officer, added: ‘The Metropolitan Police are committed to prosecuting sexual offenders. Coyne preyed on an unconscious customer whilst in his own pub and I would encourage anyone who believes they may have been a victim at the hands of Coyne to come forward.”
Coyne was sentenced to nine years in prison for rape plus an addition five years for causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.
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Chris Tyler
Sounds like the Onion at first.
Doug Copeland
Hope he was good
Bobby Buechler
Well he was drunk and was probably wearing something slutty
Melanie Peters
This is sexual assault.
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Arcamenel
only 9 years for the rape charge? That seems extremely light.
jwtraveler
Why is it relevant that the victim was heterosexual? Would this violent crime have been more acceptable if the victim had been gay? Is it more objectionable for a man to rape a lesbian than a heterosexual woman?
Billy Budd
Adequate fine for such an insult and injury.
Glücklich
How traumatic for the victim. Jeez. And the friends couldn’t see him into a taxi? This is one reason I drink at home.
Trivia: Prince of Wales is a chain pub. They’re all over metro London.
Realitycheck
Poor guy, it will never forget that night………..
and the owner couldn’t buy himself a boy? I guess business was not as good as it used to be.
Ronbo
In America, he would have gotten a MUCH lighter sentence if he had killed the man.
tdx3fan
@Glücklich: This is one reason I only drink around friends I absolutely trust. He needs a new group of friends.
spanky
@tdx3fan: You worry about your friends raping you? You need new friends.
Stache99
@tdx3fan: Wow. You must be irrisistable.
Elcaganer
@jwtraveler: By the looks of the rapist it was “assault with a dead weapon.
gaypalmsprings
Post the video please.