George Fay (pictured) raped a woman as she slept in a luxury New York apartment

The son of a British barrister has been found guilty of raping a university student as she slept at a luxury Manhattan apartment.

George Fay, 23, bowed his head and cried as the jury read out the verdict after just hours of deliberation.

He now faces up to 25 years in prison.

Fay had been accused of getting into bed with the 20-year-old victim after she had consensual sex with his friend who was asleep next to her.

The jury at New York’s Supreme Court did not believe his account that she woke him up and initiated sex.

Fay had denied rape, sex abuse and a criminal sexual act while the victim was ‘physically incapable’ of giving consent.

He was convicted on all three counts and was remanded in protective custody until his sentencing on February 27.

 Judge Melissa Jackson also said she wanted the Fay put on suicide watch.

The two week trial included claims that Fay was driven by a ‘desire for sex’ and had tried to call prostitutes shortly before the incident, all of which was a jarring contrast to his life of wealth and privilege.

Fay, who was born in London, is a former star lacrosse player at his US prep school and was brought up in the British Virgin Islands, where his family live.

After the verdict was read out Fay, who was wearing an expensive gray suit, had his hands handcuffed behind his back by three security guards.

His mother tried to get up and see her son but was held back by a security guard.

As Fay was escorted from the court he waved to his mother who blew a kiss at him. He could be heard sobbing as he was led away into the cells.

Fay’s mother then put her head in her hands and said: ‘Jesus Christ’.

His mother and father declined to comment after the case, as did their attorney Daniel Bibb.

Fay and a group of friends had been out drinking on July 9 last year when his best friend Jack Slye brought the woman back to the apartment where they had consensual sex.

Fay arrived home shortly before 4am when the student and his Slye were fast asleep in Fay’s bed, the bottom rung of a bunk bed.

Assistant District Attorney Sara Sullivan said that Fay could have slept on one of the two couches or the top bunk, but instead he chose to get in bed with them.

She said: ‘The defendant didn’t get into bed because he thought he deserved to sleep in his own bed, he got into bed because there was and undressed sleeping girl in that bed and he wanted to touch her’.

Sullivan said that Fay made a sexual advance on the woman while she was sleeping because he was ‘testing the waters’ and ‘seeing what he could get away with’.

When she did not wake up he carried on and began what the DA called a ‘nightmare’.

Sullivan said: ‘She wakes up and she sees a face she has never seen before. She looks next to her and sees Mr Slye sleeping and that’s when her world falls apart. Now she’s awake’

Sullivan said that the student had a good memory and been ‘consistent’ in her account.

The only blank spot was that she did not recognise Fay – which proved she was asleep at the time he raped her.

Sullivan said that Fay lied about the attack on the night and has been lying ever since – and she dismissed his story that the student started having sex with him as ‘ridiculous’.

Fay had been staying at the apartment owned by family friends on Manhattan’s Upper East Side last summer while he did a summer internship with the city’s Parks and Recreation Department.

In his closing speech his defence lawyer Stephen Saracco denied that he had a ‘sexual craving’ on the night of the incident.

Nor did not see the student as a ‘sleeping target of opportunity’.

Using an incorrect age for his client, Saracco said: ‘As a healthy 20-year-old man he probably has sex on his mind all the time.’

Addressing the jury, Saracco said: ‘Was it a poor choice for George Fay to climb into that bunk on July 9?

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George Fay, right, with his father Michael. Private school educated Fay was spending the summer at the Manhattan home of family friends. He’d been drinking into the early hours of the morning when the alleged attack happened

‘It probably was but we are not making a determination if he made poor choices or bad judgement, we are making a judgement of if he was guilty of rape’.

According to Saracco Fay’s defence witnesses described him as laid back, not violent and ‘simply not the type of person to do this’.

Saracco said that it Fay would have to be a ‘contortionist’ to have forced his penis into the student’s mouth while she was sleeping given she was in the lower bunk.

Doing so did not offer ‘much gratification and he ran the risk of getting bit’, he said.

Saracco attacked the student’s testimony and said: ‘It is the defence’s contention that the woman lacks the clarity, consistency and reasonableness you you can rely on to convict the defendant of rape in the first degree’.

If there was anyone who ‘put things in motion’ it was the student by going home with Slye, he said.

Saracco said: ‘I don’t know what was going on in her head but she probably regretted what she did.’

Fay, a university dropout, was raised in the British Virgin Islands an