A member of a Saudi prince’s traveling entourage has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping a 26-year-old woman in New York’s Plaza Hotel two years ago.
Mustapha Ouanes, an Algerian construction executive, argued the sex was consensual when he invited the woman and a friend to his hotel room in January of 2010 after a night of bar hopping, promising them a lavish breakfast.
‘In his bowler hat and scarf, he appeared to be relatively harmless,’ a prosecutor said of the 61-year-old during the two-week trial in February, according to the New York Times.
Both women testified of eating, drinking and smoking hashish with him before passing out, one of them on Ouanes’ bed.
When she woke up, he was raping her they said.
‘She woke up to this defendant on top of her kissing her mouth. She was unable to get him off, instead she passed back out again,’ Assistant District Attorney Samuel David said in his opening arguments, according to the Times.
‘When the woman, then 26, woke up a second time, he was having sex with her,’ he said.
The woman fought to free herself and eventually broke a glass which she intended to use as a weapon to defend herself.
Her friend, who allegedly woke to find her leggings had been pulled down, called hotel security.
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