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1. “Just so degrading.” Woman raped by Australian cricketer Alex Hepburn on discovering she was part of a ‘game’.
Warning: This article deals with an account of rape/sexual assault and may be triggering for survivors of abuse.
A woman who was raped by cricketer Alex Hepburn said she was humiliated to learn the crime was part of a WhatsApp sex conquest game.
In April, ex-Worcestershire county player Hepburn was found guilty of one count of oral rape at the Worcester Crown Court in the UK, following a retrial. A jury found the 23-year-old had raped a sleeping woman at a party in April 2017, but cleared him of a second count of rape involving the same victim.
He has been sentenced to five years prison, but is appealing his conviction.

The woman, known only as Sarah*, told the BBC it was "so humiliating" to find out at the trial she had unknowingly been part of a ‘sex conquest’ game he set up on WhatsApp with his cricketing teammates.
"I don’t even think he thought it was rape. Like the judge said he trivialised rape. I’m adamant that he thought I’d be grateful for this," she said.
"To talk about women that way, we're just items. We're just another number, a competition. It's just so degrading.
"The judge hit the nail on the head when he said he arrogantly assumed that I'd consent."
The woman had consensual sex with Hepburn’s then-teammate, Joe Clarke, earlier in the evening before falling asleep.
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Alex Hepburn and Salim Mehajer all in the one news bulletin!
God, if ever there were two people who needed to be dumped onto an island so that they can be taken out of the gene pool, it's these guys.