A CHALLENGE has failed over the ten-year jail sentence as Bradford police officer received after being found guilty of rape.

West Yorkshire Police Sergeant Ben Lister, 36, was found guilty of a "disgusting sexual assault" on a woman after a night out more than five years ago.

Lister had denied the offence, claiming his victim consented to the intercourse, but he was found guilty of rape and assault by penetration by a jury at Bradford Crown Court earlier this month.

A bid made earlier this month called for the length of the term to be reviewed under a scheme for sentences considered to be "unduly lenient".

The Attorney General's office has now reviewed the sentence and decided not to refer the case to the Court of Appeal for reconsideration.

This means that Lister's sentence will not be increased.

He was found to have raped the woman at a mutual friend’s house following a night out drinking together in a group on August Bank Holiday weekend 2016.

Bradford Crown Court heard Lister raped his “paralytically drunk” victim - many years his junior - as she “drifted in and out of consciousness” at a friend's house.

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