Eden Dyson – Leeds

A sexual predator was so determined to sexually assault a woman he broke through her living room barricade to attack her while she slept.

Eden Dyson, 33, had been banned from going to the woman’s West Yorkshire home at the time of the attack in March last year, but after they met up he followed her back to the property and refused to leave.

Judge Kirstie Watson told Bradford Crown Court the “incredibly vulnerable” woman had no real choice but to let Dyson stay at her home that night.

Addressing Dyson, of Bentley Lane, Leeds, the judge said: “She was scared enough of you that when you decided you would stay the night she told you to sleep upstairs and she would remain downstairs.

To prevent you coming down into the room with her she pushed a sofa up against a door in order to prevent you coming into the room she was in and slept on that sofa.”

Prosecutor Safaraz Ahad told the court in the early hours of the morning she awoke and found Dyson touching her and pushed him off.

The court heard that Dyson’s assault on her had been captured on Ring doorbell footage from the house and it had been played to the jury during his trial in November.

The judge said the footage showed the woman was clearly asleep and Dyson had taken advantage of her vulnerable state for his own sexual gratification.

A jury found him guilty of sexual assault. Dyson, who had 28 previous convictions for 41 offences, was convicted of the sexual assault charge and had also admitted breaching a restraining order.

On Wednesday, Judge Watson sentenced him to three years and six months in jail. He will also have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.