A sleeping woman awoke to find a drunken former Army private trying to rape her while she lay in bed.
Matthew Pill, 25, of Eccleston Drive, Runcorn, appeared in the dock for sentence at Chester Crown Court sitting at magistrates' court on Friday. Pill had initially denied the offence and pleaded not guilty to the charge of attempted rape, but changed his plea shortly before his trial was due to start in March this year.
Matthew Dunford, prosecuting, said the young woman was in bed when the attack occurred. She awoke to "feel someone was in bed behind her" who held her "tight" by the arm and she felt her "underwear had been moved" and the man was trying to "force" intercourse.
