An Airbnb superhost that raped a young Japanese female he had hired to clean his country property has actually been jailed for six-and-a-half years.
James Lithgow two times raped and also sexually attacked the 19-year-old, that talked little English, in a campers following to his house in Halls Gap in 2018.
County Court Judge Fran Dalziel stated the currently 46-year-old ought to have realized a girl being acceptable and also pleasant did not amount to an invite to sex.
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Lithgow was founded guilty by a court of 2 fees each of rape and also sexual offense, yet acquitted of various other fees consisting of unlawful imprisonment and also tried rape.
He had actually declared that he thought the female was consenting, informing cops “I’m not silly, I can tell when there’s a good feeling going on”.
Lithgow additionally defined his kissing and also touching of the girl as typical drunken …