A married man accused of sexually assaulting a vulnerable woman in her bedsit after she asked him to bring her cannabis has been found guilty of rape.

After being out for just over four hours, the jury at Truro Crown Court found Fahd Mohammed Alkhalidi, 42, formerly of Marlborough Road, Falmouth guilty of rape.

The court heard that on September 25, 2020 Alkhalidi went round to the victim’s flat with cannabis after she texted him asking for some.

The pair had been in a brief sexual relationship in early 2020 after they were introduced by a mutual friend through drugs. She had just suffered the break-up of an eight year relationship and was vulnerable to his flattery, she said.

However she ended the sexual relationship after she found out he was married. Alkhalidi continued to supply her with the drug, to which she was addicted to at the time, and they did have sex on two more occasions after the break-up, she said to stop him from pestering her for it.

She had taken to meeting him outside her bedsit in Falmouth to get the cannabis off him to stop him coming and pestering her for sex, but on the night of the rape she let him in as she’d just had a shower and her hair was wet.

Once he was inside he pushed her onto the bed, held her down and raped her before leaving abruptly.

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When she texted him the next day saying “that was nearly rape” he apologised.

Alkhalidi, who was born in Kuwait and only came to this country in 2007, claimed he didn’t know what the word rape meant and he had apologised because he thought she was referring to “rough sex”.

He claimed the sex was consensual and she had been trying to scare him and get money out of him. but the jury didn’t believe him.

Alkhalidi will be sentenced on February 24.