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    "editor1": "<p><strong>London, May 1 (CRICKETNMORE):<\/strong>&nbsp; Australia-born cricketer Alex Hepburn was slapped a five-year sentence on Tuesday for raping a woman he found &quot;dozing&quot; in his teammate&#39;s bedroom.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Ex-Worcestershire player Hepburn was convicted following the incident which had happened in 2017 during the first night of a sexual conquest &quot;game&quot; he helped set up on a WhatsApp group.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>According to reports, Hepburn committed the crime in a desperate bid to &quot;score&quot; in the WhatsApp game between him and his male friends in which they ranked each other on the basis of &quot;sexual conquests&quot;.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>According to Daily Mail, WhatsApp exchanges that suggested the cricketer had sex with 60 women during a previous &quot;game&quot; were not put before the jurors.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Another message, in which the cricketer described himself and teammate Joe Clarke as a &quot;pair of tens&quot; who &quot;should be banging models&quot;, was also ruled inadmissible, according to Daily Mail.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Giving the verdict, Judge Jim Tindal said: &quot;You probably thought it was laddish behaviour at the time. In truth it was foul sexism. It demeaned women and trivialised rape - a word you personally threw around lightly. Only now do you realise how serious rape is.&quot;<\/p>\r\n",
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