University Worker Cleared of Raping Exeter Student

Exeter Crown Court cleared Christopher Davis, a sports co-ordinator at the University of Wales, of raping the woman at a pre graduation party last summer.

The student had been carried to a bedroom at the house of AU President Joe Batten after meeting with friends at Timepiece and subsequently falling asleep during a drinking game where guests drank Archers out of a saucepan.

Davis, a former member of the Royal Horse Artillery, was in the area for a sports conference and had attended the impromptu house party with other union sports officers after an awards dinner.

He told the jury that both parties had agreed to sex after they had gone to bed on the same mattress, and rejected claims that he had seen the woman as a “piece of sexual meat” because he had seen her carried unconscious into the room.

After ten hours of deliberation, Davis was discharged from the dock.

He said: “It is absolute rubbish that I took advantage of a drunken girl. I did not force myself on her. She was not in a bad state, she spoke clearly. She was a nice girl who came onto me.”