Lawrence Barilli denies raping his former partner in her sleep (Picture: Spindrift)

A man accused of raping his partner claimed he did it because he has ‘sexsomnia’.

Lawrence Barilli, 35, is said to have had sex with the woman when she was asleep ‘a couple of hundred times’ during their relationship.

When confronted by her, he allegedly told her that he had ‘no memory’ of what had happened, and that the condition ‘made him do it’.

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Barilli, from Clydebank in Scotland, is charged with assaulting and raping the woman between September 2011 and October 2012.


The complainant told the High Court in Glasgow that the first incident happened months after they had started going out.



‘I would wake up with him having sex with me,’ she said. ‘I did not really know what to think. I thought it was something that he was trying to do to spice up the relationship.

‘It was silent throughout… I did not like it.’

He’s now on trial at the High Court in Glasgow (Picture: PA)

She said she then confronted Barilli about it the next morning.

‘I basically asked him what last night was about. He said, “what are you talking about?”‘ she said. ‘I said, having sex through the night – but he said he had no memory of it.’

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The woman claimed that when it happened again she felt she was not able to ‘stop him’.

Jurors heard that Barilli later said he had been ‘diagnosed with a condition that makes him do that’, adding that he had said his GP had diagnosed him.

Defence barrister Tony Graham asked if the woman had ever considered ‘banning’ her partner from the bedroom, and she replied that she had not.

Barilli is further accused of assaulting and raping another partner between 2008 and 2010. He denies all allegations against him.

The trial continues.