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Full Report
 | November 03, 1992 |
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A would-be schoolboy rapist picked on the wrong woman ¨ when he attacked a pretty 24-year-old who had just got off the same ¨ bus, the Old Bailey heard. The woman was a police officer on her way to work and ¨ when the 14-year-old grabbed her she dragged him to her police ¨ station by the hair, the jury was told. She had noticed the boy leering at her as she got on the ¨ bus near her home and he followed her upstairs, said prosecutor Mr Peter Testar. 'The boy sat behind her and started making nuisance of himself,' said counsel. He was so close to her that she could feel his hair and ¨ when she moved across her seat he did the same, it was alleged. She told him 'to pack it in.' She then felt something at ¨ the base of her spine, which may have been the defendant's hand.' When the bus arrived at Ladywell Road the woman got off ¨ to continue her journey to Lewisham police station on foot. The boy also got off and 'again he was looking at her in ¨ a rather strange way,' said counsel. The policewoman walked on thinking he had gone in the ¨ opposite direction, but suddenly he grabbed her from behind, the ¨ court was told. He dragged her to the grounds of a nearby leisure centre ¨ and made a 'chilling and determined' attempt to rape the police ¨ woman, said counsel. As he repeatedly pulled at her crotch he allegedly asked: ¨ 'Do you want sex or would you like me to rape you?' 'She grabbed hold of him by the hair and took him down ¨ the road to Lewisham police station,' said Mr Testar. The WPC was clearly upset by what had happened. Her ¨ tights had been ripped and there were scratches on her thighs. The boy gave a bizarre explanation of what had happened. He said as he walked past the woman in the street she ¨ turned and said: 'Do you want to go to the police station?' and ¨ dragged him there for 'no reason.' The boy admitted saying something like: 'Do you want ¨ sex.' But he claimed he was merely thinking aloud, repeating ¨ dialogue from the Austrailian TV series 'Home and Away.' The boy from Blackheath, denies attempting to rape Miss X on February 29 this year. The trial continues. ENDS | |