Man who sexually assaulted sleeping woman jailed

A man who sexually assaulted a woman while she was asleep and videoed it has been jailed for three years.

Karl Wicklow, 36, was convicted at trial for two counts of indecent assault on the same date between March and June 2023.

The footage, which had been covertly recorded by Wicklow, showed him assaulting the woman while she was lying unresponsive on the sofa, Douglas Courthouse heard.

The victim said she had been left "terrified" and "struggled to cope", adding that it was one of the "darkest moments" of her life.

In her victim impact statement, the woman said she had "regular nightmares" and "disassociates because of the trauma."

She said she had no knowledge of the video until the police told her, which was "devastating,"

"I was terrified, I could see me in the video and had no idea what was happening to me," she said.

Speaking of the trial, she said she had to watch the recording of "one of the darkest moments of my life in a court full of people" and was asked questions about things she had no knowledge of.

"I feel like I have lost who I am as a person," she said, adding, "I have struggled to cope."

But her statement said she hoped Wicklow's conviction was "the first step in me being able to move on with my life."

Sentencing Wicklow, Deemster Sandeep Kainth told him: "You have been convicted of two serious sexual assaults" against a woman who was in a "vulnerable state" as she was asleep.

Wicklow was placed on the sex offenders register until further order, and was placed under a sexual harm prevention order, also until further order.

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