A MAN has been jailed for a total of six years for carrying out a violent sexual assault on a woman in a Bournemouth hotel room and seriously injuring a stranger outside his own home.

A jury at Bournemouth Crown Court found 24-year-old Matthew Moran guilty of trying to rape the 21-year-old woman and causing her actual bodily harm at the Premier Inn in Westover Road.

The court heard that the victim, who knew Moran, invited him to her hotel room during the afternoon while he waited for his girlfriend to finish work.

During the visit to the hotel, he asked for a key card to her room. Later that night, he saw the woman get very drunk in a night club.

Just before midnight, he let himself into her room, where she was lying clothed on the bed, and mounted a sustained attack with the intention of raping her from behind.

He tried to rip off her leggings, punched her several times and bit her, leaving her with bruises and scratches over her body.

Moran then let her out into the street, posing as her friend and giving concerned onlookers various explanations for the state she was in.

While on bail, Moran threw an unopened can of lager at Hamid Aliabadi’s head as the other man was walking back to Charminster in the early hours of the morning.

He followed the other man home and asked his name before knocking him to the ground and demanding money. Mr Aliabadi replied that he did not have any.

The court heard that Mr Aliabadi sustained cuts, bruises damaged teeth and a broken wrist, which caused him financial hardship as he could not work for a few weeks.

Moran, of Cow Lane, Swanage, admitted the attack. Defence counsel Frank Abbott said his client had problems with drink and sudden outbursts of anger.

Judge John Harrow sentenced Moran – whose girlfriend is pregnant – to five years imprisonment for the attempted rape and “vicious” assault on the woman, and a year consecutive for the other attack. He was also ordered to remain on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.