Army Captain Jailed For Raping House Guest As His Future Wife Slept In Next Room – But She Stands By Him

An army captain who raped a house guest and then claimed she used one of his sex toys has been jailed – but his new wife is standing by him. Daniel Howard, 29, was jailed for seven years after carrying out the attack as his then fiancée slept in the next room.
His victim bravely appeared in the court room and shared her terrible ordeal. She told the Royal Army Medical Corps officer: “This will always be part of my life, and I will have to learn to deal with it.”
Howard, who married his wife last month, had denied carrying out the attack at his flat in February last year. His barrister told the court his wife and in-laws are standing by him, but his military career is in ruins….
He was convicted after a four-day trial in which he was accused of inventing a “ludicrous, cold-blooded and insulting” defence.
He had tried to claim forensic evidence found on intimate swabs had been put there by his victim after she found a sex toy he had used.

But the judge told the disgraced soldier, of Darlington, County Durham, there was in fact “the strongest possible evidence” against him.
Howard forced himself upon his helpless victim, and during the attack warned: “Don’t tell my fiancée.” When it was over, Howard callously asked her: “Have you had a good time?”
The Judge who spoke further said; “In the face of overwhelming DNA evidence to the contrary, you continued to deny this happened. This attempt to humiliate and denigrate your victim severely exacerbated the wrong you had already done to her.
He was then jailed for seven years. Don’t you just like how raped victims get justice in no time?