Jennifer Mallee Bournemouth Rapist who attacked two others in nightclub toilets just 19 days apart has been jailed for four years and three months. Before guiding her to a toilet cubicle where she sexually abused her first victim, Jennifer Mallee drugged her drink. Less than three weeks later, the 28-year-old sexual predator attacked another young woman she had captured in a cubicle in another bar in a similar manner.
The first victim only surfaced three years later after learning of the second attack and sharing on Facebook: “She did it to me, too.” Both victims went to court together to see Jennifer Mallee condemned to jail and grew friends. Judge Robert Pawson informed her that if she had been a male sex offender, the public would have expected a jail sentence.
The early hours of New Year’s Day 2019 saw the first attack when the victim met Mallee at the DYMK club in Bournemouth, Dorset, following boyfriend dumping. The 22-year-old woman claimed she had three rum and cokes and then began to feel ‘strange’ and ‘like a zombie’. Her drink was spiked, she thinks.
At age twenty-three at the time, Jennifer Malleedragged her to the toilet, shut the cubicle door and attacked her. Charles Gabb, the prosecutor, said: “This was a continuous incident; the victim’s state made her especially vulnerable. Though for anyone who wanted to witness she was impacted, we cannot verify who was given the drug. Everyone would have observed that this person had something entirely wrong with her.
Jennifer Mallee assaulted another young woman in the Cameo nightclub toilet on January 20, confining her in the stall with an attack lasting around twenty seconds. Mallee came clean about the sexual assault, received a 12-month community sentence, and registered for five years on the sex offenders’ list.
Following knowledge of that incident, the first victim expressed on social media, “She did it to me too”. Reaching out, the second victim met for coffee to discuss their experiences. She next complained to Dorset Police, and Jennifer Mallee was charged with the initial attack. She was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault directed against the first victim.
Defending, Chetna Patel told Bournemouth Crown Court the “very unpleasant incident” was not protracted but relatively brief, random, driven by drink. She said: “She wanted to use the facilities; this is not a situation in which she was hauled to the toilet against her choice. They both had been voluntarily drinking booze.
“In the five years, Miss Jennifer Mallee has not committed any further offences. She hardly drinks or goes out; she understands that her alcohol intake has a significant role. This was not at all like me. Her actions fit that era of time only. The court knew Jennifer Mallee was drunk and vulnerable and heard she was physically more significant than her victim.
“The victim was at a low ebb, and she sought out your company,” jailing her judge, Robert Pawson, who advised Jennifer Mallee. Having heard the evidence, I have no doubt that night, someone slipped (her) a Mickey Finn. Though there is a powerful implication you were involved in providing, I have a lingering question in mind, and I resolve that in your favour. On the evidence, though, I am confident you knew or sensed she was drunk and highly vulnerable.
“You knew the state she was in, and you made a purpose to do what you did and brought her to the ladies; whether she protested or not, she would become subject to your will. Although you had no convictions then, you offended similarly within less than three weeks. What I have read and heard suggests minimal regret. If a man in your place received a suspended sentence, I must consider the public view. Regarding sentencing, the sex of the offender shouldn’t be decisive.”
Judge Pawson also issued a sexual harm prevention order prohibiting her from using a public toilet cubicle with another woman and a restraining order forbidding her from contacting the two victims. She will also have to stay on the register for life of sex offenders.
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