A dubious and notorious man who deceived a woman he met on Facebook by refusing to tell her he was HIV positive has infected her with the virus after bouts of unprotected s*x.
Simba Kuuya
A 32-year-old man has been convicted for intentionally infecting a woman with HIV.
According to reports, Simba Kuuya had known about his condition for four years but kept it a secret from the woman and continued to have unprotected sex with her.
Trouble started when the unnamed victim parted ways with Kuuya after their relationship crashed. She was later contacted on Facebook by a former friend of Kuuya who told her about the secret. The unnamed victim contacted Kuuya asking if what she heard was true. He vehemently denied it. However, the woman went to Singleton Hospital for a blood test, which came back positive.
In a statement read to the court, the woman said the virus had had a 'devastating' effect on her and was something she would have to live with for the rest of her life. Kuuya, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, has now been jailed for two years and two months after pleading guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Handing down the sentence, Judge Christopher Vosper told him: 'Her life has been completely changed by being infected - something that could easily have been avoided if you had been honest from the start.
'You chose to conceal something from her that you should have been open about. The consequences have been devastating.'
The court was told Kuuya has 14 previous convictions for 25 offences including burglary, assaulting a police officer, theft, affray, battery against his mother, and assaulting a partner by glassing her in face with a smashed tumbler.