Man Bags 5 Years Jail Term For Infecting Two Women With HIV

A Ghanaian who deliberately infected his two girlfriends with HIV was imprisoned for five years within the UK. The 23-year-old slept with two ladies when being diagnosed as HIV positive and refused further assistance from doctors nor requesting for medication to suppress the virus.

Japhet Osei wooed and bedded two teenagers without telling them his condition, a judge was told. He didn’t use any protection with a 17-year-old lady and didn’t caution the second victim into having s*x with him she was his girlfriend.

Osei even revealed that a sexual health clinic check-up had found he was clean and showed her a text message to prove it, the court detected.

However, he was keeping the secret that he was not only HIV positive but that he had a particularly high viral count, which meant it was more likely he would infect partners through unprecedented sex.

Both women, who cannot be identified for legal reasons and were referred to as Miss A and Miss B throughout the hearing, quickly fell ill and tests showed Osei had passed the virus onto each of them.

An expert analysis found that they shared exactly the same strain of the virus. Today, Judge Angela Morris, sitting at Reading Crown Court, said Osei, wearing a blue tracksuit, had “lied, lied and lied again.”

Jailing him for a total of five years she said: “We are not living in the 1980s where everyone was ignorant of the effects of this disease and running around in a panic.

“This is 30 years later. You were provided with expertise, assistance and the opportunity for treatment for the terrible disease you knew you carried and you refused it.

“Despite your knowledge of your medical condition, you embarked on a sexual relationship. Your actions are totally inexcusable.”

She added that she had read the “harrowing ordeal” each woman had subsequently gone through physically and mentally since diagnosis, via their victim impact statements.

She also ordered that Osei should be the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order where he is not permitted to have sex with any woman without telling her about his HIV status.