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Failed asylum seeker convicted of raping woman in her own home after his crying victim made secret recording of attack
By JACK HARDY, NEWS REPORTER
Published: 07:29 EST, 11 December 2025 | Updated: 08:30 EST, 11 December 2025
A failed asylum seeker has been found guilty of raping a woman in her own home after his crying victim made a secret recording of the attack.
Chret Callender, an hotel migrant from Trinidad, forced himself on the young woman after turning up drunk at her home at the end of a night out.
The woman refused when the 28-year-old asked her for 'some loving' - but he overpowered her and 'carried on regardless'.
The woman had managed to record much of the horrific incident on her phone, which was later used as evidence to snare her attacker.
In the harrowing audio clips played to a jury, she can be heard crying and telling Callender: 'I have said no, please stop.'
Callender was heard saying 'have some respect for me' and 'to shut up'.
At one point he asked the woman: 'Why are you crying? You're making me feel like I'm raping you'.
The recordings continued until after the attack finished, when he could be heard telling the woman he was sorry and that he had 'f***** up'.
Callender admitted to trying to pressure her into having sex, but claimed he stopped when she said no.
He even suggested the woman faked the attack when she started recording them.
But a jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault after almost five hours of deliberations.
Afterwards it emerged that Callender is a failed asylum seeker.
He was staying at the Britannia Hotel - one of three hotels in Bournemouth taken over by the Home Office for the exclusive use of asylum seekers - while his appeal went through.
Callender was remanded into custody until he is sentenced in January.
Mary Aspinall-Miles, defending, told the court that her client was willing to engage in the government's Early Removal Scheme (ERS).
This allows foreign national prisoners in the UK to be deported before their sentence is finished.
She said: 'My client will fall within the new Early Removal Scheme which is something he's keen to engage in.
'He arrived on a lawful Visa and remained and then made an asylum claim which was rejected for lack of evidence.
'During the appeals process he was in Bournemouth.'
Bournemouth Crown Court heard the rape happened in the early hours of June 14 this year.
The victim, who cannot be named, said she had spent the previous evening in Bournemouth Pleasure Gardens with friends. Callender was present.
At the end of the night, she got a taxi home - only for the defendant to later turn up at her door.
She said: '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.
'He pulled the blanket off me, I tried to push him off and kept saying 'no, I don't want to' and 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.
'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.'
Russell Pyne, prosecuting, said: '[The complainant] had been concerned about this defendant's apparent drunkenness and determination and she had the presence of mind to record what was going on in the bedroom between her and him.
'In those recordings you can hear the build up to the rape, the rape itself and then the aftermath.
'As the recordings go on she is becoming increasingly upset and then crying. There's sections with the defendant appearing to apologise for what he has just done.'
Callender told the jury: 'I never forced myself on her. I don't need to force myself on someone.
'I was really pressuring her and that's wrong. Because I was pressuring her, that's why she was breaking down in tears. I never actually had sex with her.'
Callender showed no emotion as he was found guilty of rape by unanimous decision.
He will be sentenced on January 22.
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