However, on Tuesday the appeals court Svea Hovrätt threw out the verdict. The district court did not believe their stories and sentenced the man to two and a half years in prison for raping a minor. It said the prosecutor had not managed to prove beyond doubt that the man was not asleep at the time he had sex with the girl. The condition of sexsomnia, from which the man is not believed to have been suffering at the time, according to Aftonbladet, came to national attention in 2014 when a suspected sleeping rapist in northern Sweden was cleared by an appeals court. The girl confirmed that the man had been asleep, but said that she had allowed the sexual intercourse to continue in the hope that his wife would wake up and leave him.

Source: The Local July 19, 2016 15:22 UTC