Failed asylum seeker who subjected lady to ‘animalistic’ rape whereas he was staying at taxpayer-funded lodge is jailed for seven years

A failed asylum seeker who raped a woman in her own home while he was staying at a taxpayer-funded hotel has been jailed for seven years today.

Chret Callender, 28, turned up drunk at the victim’s home and forced himself on her and ‘carried on regardless’ when she told him no.

The young woman had the presence of mind to record much of the horrific incident on her phone to later use as evidence against Callender. 

In the audio clips played to a jury, she was heard crying and telling Callender ‘I have said no, please stop’.

Callender, who is from Trinidad and staying at the Britannia Hotel in Bournemouth, Dorset, was heard saying ‘have some respect for me’ and ‘to shut up’.

Afterwards he apologised to the woman and said he had ‘f…ed up’.

The victim, who can’t be named, said she had spent the evening in Bournemouth Pleasure Gardens with friends and Callender was there.

At the end of the night she got a taxi home only for the defendant to later turn up at her door in the early hours of June 14 last year.

She said during the trial: ‘I told him I didn’t want him to come in. I was worried he was going to be loud and I didn’t want to get in trouble with my housemates.

‘He told me to f*** off a few times. I said “I’m in my house, I can’t go anywhere, you can leave” but he said no.

‘I had a blanket wrapped around me, trying to get to sleep.

‘I said “I’m really tired, I just want to go to sleep’ but he wasn’t letting me go to sleep, he just kept talking and trying to argue.

‘That’s when I thought I would record. Because he was under the influence he might shout at me, I did think it was a good idea to record in case.”

She told the court that she repeatedly told Callender  ‘no, I don’t want to’ and that he said ‘I need to, I’ll be quick’. 

‘I made it clear no means no. He was telling me he didn’t care if I cried,’ she said.

‘I tried pushing him off but I couldn’t, he kept pushing my hands away. I didn’t feel strong enough to push him off.

‘He was quite forceful so I couldn’t really move. He grabbed my wrist at one point, I said “stop that, you’re hurting me”.

‘When he finished I went to the bathroom and locked myself in.

‘When I went back to the bedroom he kept saying I’m sorry, I didn’t know this is how you would react, this isn’t my fault.

‘I was in so much shock I didn’t know what to say to him. I just sat on my bed for a couple of hours because I couldn’t sleep with him being there.’     

Callender is a failed asylum seeker whose application to remain in Britain was refused in April 2025.

He is now expected to be deported under the government’s Early Removal Scheme (ERS).

This allows foreign national prisoners in the UK to be deported before their sentence is finished.

The court heard his appeal to stay, launched in April 2025, had been ‘in stasis’ during the trial.

He was staying at the Britannia Hotel in Bournemouth, Dorset, while his appeal went through at the time of the rape two months later in June.

Callender claimed the woman faked the attack when she started recording them. But a jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault.

He was sentenced today at Bournemouth Crown Court where he was jailed for seven years.

Addressing Callender, His Honour Judge Richard Fuller KC said: ‘The recordings played to the jury were shocking.

‘Despite her calls and repeated pleas you forced yourself on her as she was face down on her bed and kept her down with your body weight.

‘Throughout you called her names and told her to shut up and said she needed to respect you in the bedroom, which showed your warped sense of entitlement.

‘You behaved in an animalistic and base way.

‘The sentence because of your immigration status may result in deportation to serve any remaining term in your home country but that’s a matter for the Home Office, not for this court.’     

The woman said today in her victim impact statement that her life had ‘changed forever and been destroyed’ by Callender’s actions.

She said that since the attack she had endured panic attacks, nightmares and paranoia, and no longer felt safe in her own home.

She sobbed in court as she said: ‘I believed I was safe with him and he violated me in such a horrific way, destroying my sense of safety.

‘I was in absolute shock at his betrayal.

‘My life changed completely that night. I now have panic attacks, constant paranoia and no longer feel safe in my home.

‘I fear he may do this to someone else who will have to go through what I endured.

‘It has changed me forever.’

Mitigating, Mary Aspinall-Miles said Callender had arrived in Britain on a lawful visa as his family had been ‘threatened’ in their native Trinidad.

His asylum claim was rejected for a lack of evidence, prompting his appeal.

She said he was ‘remorseful’ at how the night had unfolded and his family was ‘deeply ashamed’ of him.

She said: ‘He made an application for asylum in around September 2024 because his family had been the subject of targeted threats.

‘The appeal remained in stasis until this matter was resolved.

‘If there was some why that he could rewind back to that night and not have treated her in that way he certainly would have taken a different course.

‘His family is deeply ashamed of him and he is ashamed of himself.’