Chinese official's son jailed for 'date-rape' sexual assault in Britain, says newspaper

The son of a Chinese government official was charged at the weekend for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in Britain in late 2011.

Zhong, a student at Northumbria University in Newscastle upon Tyne in North East England, had allegedly watched hours of date-rape pornography online and fantasised about copying what he saw. 

In December 2011, Zhong offered a woman a drink spiked with drugs he had bought online and then "forced himself on top of her" while she was in a drugged state, the court said, adding that he had intended to rape her but then "changed his mind".

He was arrested after the victim recalled certain parts of the ordeal and reported it to the police, the MailOnline report said.

Police found eight downloaded pornographic videos on Zhong’s personal computer, which had been viewed on different occasions since November 2011. He was also said to have carried out “specific searches” on different types of date-rape drugs. Two types of drugs that he bought online had failed to work, the report said.