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Man infects two women, one just 17, with HIV after lying about being clean and having unprotected sex

Japhet Osei from Berkshire was sentenced to five years after he knowingly infected two young women with HIV

A Berkshire man who told two of his girlfriends that he had no STDs before he ended up infecting them has been arrested and jailed for five years. Japhet Osei refused to take the medication to treat the infection and instead had sex with two women — one of whom was just 17-years-old — without protection. 

A crown court heard how Osei allegedly showed one of his victims a text message to prove that he did not have STDs and convinced her to have sex with him without the use of a condom. Not only did he keep his HIV infection a secret from them, but he also did not disclose the fact that he had a high count which meant that he was very likely to infect someone via unprotected sex.