DNA test showed he raped wife after drunken row.

A woman who told her husband she thought she had been raped discovered it had been him after police did a DNA test, a judge has been told.

The court heard a 35-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, brazenly told his wife she should call police when she told him the next morning she thought she had been sexually assaulted, The Sun reports.

The man was reportedly called to collect his drunken wife after she was found slumped over a bench in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. But when they got home, the husband raped his wife while their children slept, the court heard.

The woman woke with no memory of what had happened but began to become suspicious.

When she contacted police, as her husband advised, a subsequent DNA test revealed he was the rapist. He was sentenced to seven years in jail and ordered to sign onto the sex Offenders’ Register for life.

He was also subjected to a restraining order preventing him from contacting his wife, other than through solicitors.

Reading Crown Court heard the couple had rowed earlier that evening on the way to a friend’s barbecue, then the wife had spent the night drinking a “considerable amount of alcohol” before being leaving at 1am and later being found on the bench.

Meanwhile, the husband had spent the evening at the barbecue with the couple’s son until, he received a call about 2am saying his wife was draped over a bench close to a major road.

Upon sentencing, Judge Alexia Durran said: “You drove her home and the inevitable conclusion of the jury was you then raped her while she was unable to consent, as a result of the alcohol she had consumed.”

She added: “She described the total and utter shock upon finding out the person responsible was you, her husband.”