A CHEF has been jailed for 24 years for a campaign of rape in which he had sex with five women after spiking their drinks.

Tom Wade-Allison was branded by a judge as a misogynist who had no concern for the physical and emotional suffering he inflicted and told that he poses a serious danger to women.

Wade-Allison was living and working in Somerset in 2016 to 2017 when he raped his victims.

He met them socially and spiked the drinks of at least three of them to enable him to carry out the attacks.

They became suddenly drowsy and woke from a semi-conscious state to find him having sex with them against their will.

He told one of them he was mixing them ‘a special drink’ and slipped a date rape drug into gin and tonics which he made for the others

They became speechlessly drunk very quickly within minutes and felt 'blank' and unable to resist the violent and painful sex acts he forced them to take part in.

Wade-Allison raped the five women over a period of 20 months in Somerset and Honiton when he was aged 20 to 21 and the victims were 17 to 20.

The first four told friends of their ordeals at the time but did not go to the police and Wade-Allison was only caught when he raped a fifth in his staff quarters at a hotel in Martock.

She had gone back for a drink but suddenly felt drowsy after one gin and tonic and woke up to find him raping her. She drifted back into unconsciousness and woke to find the same thing happening again.

He effectively admitted raping her in texts the next day which said: "All I can do is apologise over and over again. Obviously, there was some tiny part of my brain that thought it was okay."

The others came forward once they learned police were investigating. The all say they were assaulted after becoming incapacitated, apparently by alcohol, while with Wade-Allison.

Some of the assaults happened at sleepovers after parties and some were at the victims’ own homes, including one woman who was raped in a flat above a shop in the centre of Honiton.

Judge Timothy Rose praised the courage of the victims after reading impact statements which spoke of deep psychological trauma, flashbacks, nightmares, and problems with self-confidence and relationships.

Wade-Allison, 25, of Martock, denied but was convicted of nine counts of rape, one of attempted rape, three of assault by penetration, and one of sexual assault.

He was jailed for 24 years at Exeter Crown Court and put on the sex offenders register for life.

Judge Rose told him: “The victims all trusted you and liked you but you were to exploit and abuse their friendship in an appalling way.

“It is a feature of all the cases that you acted in an aggressive way, forcing yourself on then, knowing they were not consenting. You did not even begin to acknowledge that any sexual contact requires consent.

“It is a common theme that you just did what you wanted. You used your physical advantage over them and behaved aggressively and roughly, revealing your sense of entitlement over the victims.

“I am entirely sure that you did drug two of the victims with some substance in their drinks, with the effect that they lost consciousness and self-control so you could carry out sexual acts utterly against their will.

“There is no other conceivable rational explanation for the disconnected, out of body experiences they described. It is no coincidence they each remember you handing them a drink before that happened.

“You remain a danger to women. There is a profoundly misogynistic element to your predatory behaviour. You display no thought or feeling or any concern to establish consent.

“You had no concern for the pain, physical and emotional, that you were inflicting. This case qualifies as being a campaign of rape.”

During a two-week trial, the jury heard that he common feature of all the allegations was that Wade-Allison took advantage of the women when they were severely affected by drinks and possibly cannabis

They became very drunk very quickly and in some cases there was no connection with how much they had drunk.

One blanked out after a single drink and went from being totally okay to not being there at all. Another was just too drunk or stoned to stop him.

Wade Allison denied spiking any drinks and said he only had sex with the women when they were awake and consenting.

He said in some cases they were very drunk but they were still capable of agreeing to sex and did so.

He denied raping the fifth complainant at his room at the hotel where he works.

He said: “It just did not happen. She accused me of spiking her drink but I didn’t do so. I never raped any of these women. I have never got hold of any stupefying drugs.”

Nigel Wraith, defending, said Wade-Allison had been young at the time and has stayed out of trouble in the four years since the final offence.