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AN OBESE woman has been charged with rape after she allegedly pinned down a sleeping man and forced herself on him.

The 31-year-old victim told police he awoke in the night to find Chantae Gilman on top of him in his Seattle apartment.

Gilman, who weighs about 110kg, had pinned the man’s arms down and had put his penis inside her, police said.

The man said he didn’t know Gilman, 28, but recognised her as a “drug user in the area”.

The 28-year-old woman reportedly knew one of the victim’s neighbours in the apartment complex.

She refused the man’s demands for her to get off him and told him to be quiet, police said.

Eventually he was able to squeeze out from under her and force her out of his apartment.

IN NATIONAL NEWS

— A HEARTBROKEN Nicole Kidman arrived home in ­Australia yesterday to mourn with her family after the ­sudden death of her father, Professor Antony Kidman.

— PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has promised to send Australian military forces to the Persian Gulf to assist in attacks on the Islamic State.

— JENNY Geppert refuses to blame her brother-in-law for the shooting tragedy that has devastated a community and left her family in shreds.

— HE left Swimming Australia amid claims of inappropriate behaviour towards female staff, but former president Barclay Nettlefold has been welcomed back as a VIP guest.

— POLICE have ­escalated their search for five rocket launchers believed to be buried in Sydney bushland by a terror cell linked to Islamic State savages Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar.

IN WORLD NEWS

— REEVA Steenkamp’s brother says Oscar Pistorius got away with murder, as security is stepped up to protect the judge in his recent trial.

— A SINGLE mother, divorcees and couples who have been living together have been married by Pope Francis in a taboo-challenging ceremony.

— AN AMERICAN who allegedly sought asylum in North Korea has instead been handed six years’ hard labour by the regime for “hostile” acts.

— A WOMAN thought to be a UK medical student who left Britain to join the Islamic State has posted a Twitter selfie of her holding a severed head.

— A STALKER will spend 25 years in jail for raping a pregnant woman and forcing her to breastfeed him, among other horrifying sex crimes.



IN SHOWBIZ NEWS

— LIFESTYLE guru Martha Stewart has had a crack at Gwyneth Paltrow, reportedly saying she should shut up about her “lifestyle” via her GOOP site.

— A DJANGO Unchained actorclaims she was handcuffed by cops who mistook her for a prostitute when she kissed her white husband in public.

— SHE claims it doesn’t exist, but that hasn’t stopped Iggy Azalea from threatening to sue a porn company if it markets her ‘sex tape’.

— 30 ROCK and Glee star Cheyenne Jackson married boyfriend Jason Landau in California over the weekend.

— SAM Smith’s huge, hymnal-like hit Stay With Me established the 22-year-old as a star and opened the door to some of fame’s weirder experiences.

— A LIFE-size statue of Amy Winehouse has been unveiled in London to honour the singer who died of drug and alcohol abuse three years ago.

— IF YOU thought Paris Hilton’s new purebred pup was cute, wait until you see the rest of her madcap menagerie.



IN SPORTS NEWS

— AN AUSTRIAN soccer player has received an extraordinary 70-match ban for headbutting a referee.

— ENGLAND’S Paul Casey has won the Dutch Open title at Zandvoort, carding a final round of 66 to haul in Frenchman Romain Wattel.

— AUSSIE Karrie Webb has come agonisingly close to winning her eighth career major, finishing one stroke behind Hyo-Joo Kim at the Evian Championship.

