A WOMAN who had sex with a takeaway food delivery driver under the misapprehension she was with her husband says a jury's guilty verdict has restored her right to sleep in her own bed.

Amit Hamal, 22, a Nepalese national, was delivering Indian food to the woman's house when he walked past her bedroom, noticed she was alseep and proceded to remove her pants and have sexual intercourse.

Her husband, who had fallen asleep in the lounge while waiting for the food to arrive, denied having sex with her when she raised it the following morning, saying it must have been a vivid dream.

It was not until Hamal called the house later that day and suggested they become casual sex partners that she realised she had been sexually assaulted.

During a trial in the District Court, Hamal told the jury the sex was consensual, claiming the woman initiated the encounter by pulling him towards her.