A 28-year-old man has been found guilty of a sex attack on a sleeping girl that sent shockwaves through Perth.
Callum Ferris Davies failed to escape accountability for the Ellenbrook assault when a judge today rejected his claim of mental impairment.
CCTV footage captured the Oakfield man climbing a backyard fence, the precursor to a nightmare that would send chills down the spine of any parent.
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It was just after midnight on December 27, 2021, when the then-25-year-old with autism spectrum disorder snuck into a stranger’s home and into a sleeping seven-year-old girl’s bedroom.
She told police she woke to find her mouth “sticky-taped shut” and was told to be quiet before she was “choked unconscious”.
The girl, who can’t be named for legal reasons, woke in a different pyjama shirt to the one she went to bed in and the runaway predator handed himself in to police days later.
Davies admitted carrying out the horrific attack but claimed he was in a state of psychosis and unable to control himself.
After hearing all the evidence, the judge wasn’t convinced.
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The guilty finding means he’ll serve his time in prison rather than a psychiatric facility.
He’ll find out just how long at a sentencing hearing in January.
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