A TURKISH waiter was jailed for two years yesterday for knowingly infecting a woman with deadly Hepatitis B – a crime branded biological GBH by his own lawyer.
Ercan Yasar, 29, knew he carried the virus and had been warned he should always use a condom during sex.
But he did not tell his 27-year-old victim – who thought he was the man of her dreams – about his condition.
Yasar also gave the woman chlamydia but that did not form part of the charge. He admitted causing her grievous bodily harm.
The judge, Recorder Neil Ford QC, told him: “Your act of unprotected sex was an extremely inconsiderate, selfish and dangerous one.
“You satisfied your sexual urges without thought of the danger that you were causing her.”
The court heard the woman fell extremely ill as a result of the hepatitis and spent ten days in hospital.
She has since recovered but will carry the virus – which in chronic cases can cause fatal liver cirrhosis and cancer – for the rest of her life.
Prosecutor Giles Nelson told Gloucester Crown Court “selfish” Yasar learned he had Hepatitis B in 2003. He met his victim at a club in Cheltenham last August and they dated for a few weeks before having sex one Saturday afternoon after a four-hour vodka binge.
Lloyd Jenkins, defending, said Yasar acted in “a moment of madness”. He admitted: “It is biological GBH.”
Recorder Ford, who recommended Yasar be deported after his sentence, told him: “It is the sort of infection one would expect by any standards of decency would be communicated.”
The victim was not in court but housemate Sally Pulham said: “We all thought he might be the one for her – how wrong we were. It has ruined her life.”
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