Stranger Rapes Aussie Woman Who Thought She Was Having Sex With BF

The Adelaide District Court sentenced on Thursday 38-year-old Mark Lee Duncan, a former soldier, six and a half years prison term for raping a resident of Richmond in February 2012. What was ironic about the case was the victim though it was her boyfriend who was making love to her, not a total stranger.

She only discovered it was not her boyfriend - who was asleep in the same room - when the boyfriend woke up the next morning and saw another man on top of his girlfriend. Duncan, who went on a marijuana and beer binge before the incident, told the boyfriend that the woman invited him in.

Duncan entered the woman's house in the early morning hours though an unlocked back sliding door. He initially hid himself under the bed and later crawled out and performed oral sex on the woman who thought it was her boyfriend who was doing it.

Duncan's lawyer asked Judge Sydney Tilmouth for leniency because his client is suffering from working memory impairment and major depression. Duncan claimed he could not recall what happened to himself that night.

The judge acknowledged the reports of Duncan's mental problems caused by previous personal trauma he suffered while in the New Zealand military. "The bizarre way in which these crimes were committed strongly suggests a person who was not functioning normally," Tilmouth noted.

But Tilmouth nevertheless found Duncan guilty of rape, indecent assault and aggravated count of serious criminal trespass.

Due to the crime's unusual and puzzling circumstances, the judge commented, quoted by News.com.au, "Sometimes in the criminal courts the truth is stranger than fiction ... It (the matter) is most unusual to say the least."