A university student who dreamed of becoming a solicitor has been jailed for slapping a woman in the face with his penis after she fell asleep at a house party.
John Luke Dale, 21, stripped down to his boxers and shoved his manhood in the young woman's face before hitting her across her cheek with his penis at the party in Nottingham.
The criminology undergraduate's actions only came to light when a friend, who filmed the entire act on his mobile phone, showed the video to his workmates.
A university student who dreamed of becoming a solicitor has been jailed for slapping a woman in the face with his penis after she fell asleep at a house party.
John Luke Dale, 21, stripped down to his boxers and shoved his manhood in the young woman's face before hitting her across her cheek with his penis at the party in Nottingham.
The criminology undergraduate's actions only came to light when a friend, who filmed the entire act on his mobile phone, showed the video to his workmates.
Judge McCreath said: 'One can see in stark form the distress caused to the victim of this offence and the continuing nature of it.
'The sentence which the judge imposed cannot possibly be wrong in principle.
'She struck a balance between the mitigating and aggravating factors and exercised her judgement in a manner which was open to her.'
In a victim impact statement, the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the incident had made her feel violated.
She said: 'It makes me think that it could still be out there in someone's possession and that anyone could have it.
'Knowing that it could exist petrifies me.'
Trevor Burke QC, defending, argued that Dale's sentence was too tough and claimed that the young man had received no sexual gratification from the act.
He said: 'It was a stupid drunken incident that lasted a very brief period of time, where he slaps his flaccid penis on the head of a sleeping woman.
'It was extremely unpleasant, but not driven by any sexual motivation on his part.'
Mr Burke said the student had done everything he could to make up for the offence, vowing to keep away from the university until his victim had graduated.
He had moved back to his family home, where he was being kept under curfew by his parents and working for his dad to earn money to pay the victim compensation.
Mr Burke said that potentially losing his studies and hopes of a career as a solicitor were additional punishments which meant a prison sentence could have been avoided.
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