A lesbian sex offender who attacked two women in a nightclub bathroom 19 days apart faces jail after being found guilty of sexual assault.
Jennifer Mallee, 28, is believed to have spiked her first victim’s drink before taking her to a bathroom stall to sexually assault her.
Less than three weeks later, the predator carried out a similar attack on another young woman whom he trapped in a cubicle at another club.
The first woman didn’t come forward until three years later, when she read about the second attack and posted on the Facebook article: “She did it to me too.”
Her message led the second woman to contact her and the two, who were strangers, met at a Starbucks to share their experiences.
This gave the first victim the confidence to report his attack to the police and they charged Mallee with sexual assault.
Jennifer Mallee, 28, pictured at Bournemouth Crown Court where a jury found her guilty of three counts of sexual assault.
She denied the allegations but was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault after a six-day trial.
The first assault occurred in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2019, when the victim met Mallee at the DYMK club in Bournemouth, Dorset, after being dumped by her boyfriend.
The woman, who was 22 at the time, drank around three rum and cokes and then began to feel “weird”, believing that drinks had been spiked.
In his police interview, he said: ‘It was like an out-of-body experience. It was really strange, like I was frozen. I couldn’t speak, everything was muffled around me.’
Mallee led her by the hand to the bathroom and closed the stall door before he indecently assaulted her.
The victim was able to escape when other revelers banged on the door because they had been in the cubicle for some time.
Mallee denied the allegations but was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault after a six-day trial.
He said that after the attack he blocked it from his mind and thought they would not believe him if he filed a complaint.
Then, in May 2022, she read an article in a local newspaper about Mallee’s conviction for a similar attack on another woman.
That attack occurred in the bathrooms of the Cameo nightclub in Bournemouth on January 20, 2019.
The first assault occurred in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2019, when the victim met Mallee at the DYMK club in Bournemouth, Dorset, after being abandoned by her boyfriend.
Mallee trapped the second victim in a stall and put his hand up her skirt, and the assault lasted about 20 seconds.
Mallee admitted the sexual assault and was given a 12-month community order and placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.
The first victim, now 26, learned the news when her ex-boyfriend sent her a screenshot of the article asking ‘is that you?’
She told police in an interview: “I immediately ran downstairs and told my mother ‘someone has talked about that girl’.”
‘As soon as I said that (comment) I thought ‘why would I put that there?’ It was almost like a cry for help. I’m almost glad I did it because that’s how I met (the second woman).
Cameo nightclub in Bournemouth (pictured) where a similar attack occurred in the toilets on January 20, 2019.
‘She sent me a message saying ‘hi, I’m the girl in the article, I just wanted to know if you’re okay.’ It was nice to be able to talk to someone who understood and knew how I felt.
“We met to have coffee and talk about what we had been through.
‘I felt like I had to do it (come forward) for myself and to keep other people safe…’
Mallee claimed the young woman had made up the attack and said they had only shared a New Year’s ‘kiss’.
But a jury found her guilty of three counts of sexual assault and not guilty of one.
Mallee, of Bournemouth, will be sentenced on June 7.