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Drunk ordered to pay sex crime victims after posting a negative online review of a rape crisis centre

Nottingham Magistrates ordered him to pay two victims who read the slurs £100 each

DRUNK was ordered to pay sex crime victims yesterday after posting an online review of a rape crisis centre, saying: "Don't recommend this place at all.

Jobless Matthew Humphries, 34, added: "Went there after work with my hopes high for a jolly good rape. The name of the place is misleading. Avoid at all costs.

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Nottingham magistrates ordered Matthew Humphries to pay each victim £100 eachCredit: Alamy

"I had to go to university park. What a lovely victim she was.

"Does anyone know of any place with a deliveroo service to bring rape to me nice and fresh?" Humohries, of Nottingham, was traced via his mobile. He admitted sending grossly indecent and offensive messages on May 10.

Nottingham magistrates ordered him to pay two sex crime victims who read the slurs £100 each with a 12 month probation order.

One of the victims said: "The words have stuck in my head, especially about finding a victim." Deputy District Judge Graham Bennett told him: "I don't know what possessed you to describe a review in the way you did.

"I am told you are in drink at the time. It is no excuse. It makes the offending more serious because people in drink lose their inhibitions by not thinking.

"Your misconduct was an online review at a rape crisis centre. The reason people put up online reviews is to let them be read by others." Solicitor Neil O'Sullivan, mitigating, said Humphries' father had just died, he was suffering depression and he had started drinking.

The lawyer added: "He is incredibly ashamed, contrite and remorseful."