By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-11 10:26:44 | Updated at 2024-11-18 03:39:14
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A Hong Kong court sentenced a Swedish businessman to seven years in jail on Monday after he was found guilty of raping his domestic helper.
Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, 36, was earlier found guilty in the High Court of one count of rape and another of buggery without consent for sexually assaulting his helper in his bedroom on the night of October 27, 2022.
The Nepalese victim earlier testified the defendant came home drunk on the day of the attack after learning his wife and children had left him.
She told the court that Ekstrom at one point became very emotional and threatened to kill her if she did not comply with his demand for sex.
He then pressed her down onto the bed before sexually assaulting her, only stopping when she cried out in pain.
Ekstrom had denied raping the woman and claimed she had initiated sex with him on two other occasions, during which the helper asked him to repay a debt she had incurred.
