TEEN CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE SEXUAL OFFENSES
An arrogant teen accused of carrying out a double sex attack in Exeter has told a jury both victims were 'crying rape' to get him into trouble.Sonny Boyes, 19, says he had 'dumb teenage sex' with a 16-year-old in bushes but it was consensual.
He also admits kissing and fondling a 17-year-old girl at a bus stop and on a train a few minutes later.
But he said both alleged victims were 'making a mountain out of a molehill' and enjoyed the encounters 'without a shadow of a doubt'.
Boyes described himself as a traditionalist and a man with a 'strong moral foundation'.
He said he regarded both of the alleged victims as 'slags' but would not have said that to their faces.
He described the allegations as 'a big fat f*** off lie'.
The defendant was giving evidence in his defence on the fourth day of his trial at Exeter Crown Court.
The prosecution say Boyes is a 'highly sexualised' young man who raped his first victim in bushes before sexually assaulting the second as she waited for a train.
He denies all 10 charges.
He told the jury the first girl willingly followed him into bushes and gave him oral sex and then full sex.
"She was all over me", he said.
He claimed she had a 'stinking attitude' and told him to hurry up, rolling her eyes and flicking her hair.
"It was disgusting, a bit rude," he said.
The encounter ended when some boys came into the bushes to find a football.
CCTV played to the jury shows the girl running away across the Digby park and ride car park.
Boyes says he bumped into the second alleged victim as he walked towards the Digby and Sowton train station.
He asked to use the data on her phone and within a few minutes was sat at bus shelter kissing and touching her.
He said at one point she got up to walk away but returned to masturbate him 'with a great big smile on her face'.
He said he touched the girl intimately between her legs as she sat on his lap but would never do that without her consent.
He said she never asked him to stop and was 'laughing and giggling' the whole time.
"I'm a good man," he said.
He said he had made the mistake of giving himself to girls who did not respect him as much as he respected them.
The incidents happened on May 9, 2025.
Police arrested Boyes that evening at McDonald's in Exeter.
He told them he was a a 'stud' and didn't need to rape girls because he was so good looking.
Boyes admitted he had a reputation as a 'cocky Essex boy' and can 'easily get pissed off'.
He denied the victims would have been intimidated by his muscular appearance and said he would never lay a hand on a woman who didn't want him to.
"Not in a million years," he said.
He was asked to look at CCTV which the prosecution says shows the second woman looking upset at his behaviour.
Boyes said she was 'trying to get everyone to look at her' so she could 'cry rape' later.
He said both girls felt guilty because they had cheated on their boyfriends with him.
He said the first victim would have screamed if she had been getting brutally raped in the bushes but she hadn't and was 'making a mountain out of a molehill'.
Boyes was asked whether he was someone who doesn't listen when women say 'no' to him.
"It's all about what you want isn't it?" asked Miss Hope.
Boyes denied it was.
The defendant has pleaded not guilty to three charges of rape relating to the first incident, four assault by penetration and three charges of sexual assault.
The jury is expected to retire to consider verdicts on Friday.
31/10/2025 - Conviction Update: Sonny Boyes, 19, was convicted of nine out of ten charges related to two separate sexual attacks in Exeter.
His convictions are as follows: 2 counts of rape 4 counts of assault by penetration 3 counts of sexual assault He was acquitted of one charge of oral rape.
The convictions relate to the rape of a 16-year-old girl in bushes near a car park and the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl a short time later as she walked to a train station.
