A man has been jailed after having unprotected sex with two women without telling them he was HIV positive.
Mweetwa
Muleya, 28, infected the two women with the disease after he failed to tell
them about his condition. A
court heard the women were ‘devastated’ to find out they had caught the life
changing illness after going for blood tests.
Sentencing
Muleya to seven years in prison, Judge Huw Davies QC said: ‘You were selfish to
a degree which beggars description. You deceived, quite deliberately, one
person after another in ways that damaged their lives with lasting
consequences. The harm to these victims was of the worst kind.’
one of the victims, only
known as Miss B, said Muleya had destroyed her life.
Muleya was diagnosed with HIV at 15 but said his mother didn’t tell him until he was nearly 19. Muleya, who came to the UK from Zambia in his teens, was given anti-retroviral medication to control the virus and advice on how to stop its spread.
He
was told it would be a crime to have unprotected sex with someone and not
disclose his positive status.
But
Swansea Crown Court heard Muleya fell into a lifestyle of drink and drugs and
lapsed when it came to sexual health check ups.
Muleya
said he did drink and take drugs because he was in denial about his condition,
Swansea Crown Court heard. Nonetheless Muleya remained sexually active.
When
arrested Muleya said he had used protection with both women.
Muleya,
of Matthew Street, Swansea, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing of GBH in
May this year.
He
was sentenced to seven years in prison, and handed an extra six months for
unrelated drug offences.