A MAN WHO TRIED TO RAPE A PREGNANT WOMAN IN FRONT

A MAN WHO TRIED TO RAPE A PREGNANT WOMAN IN FRONT OF HER

TWO YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER HAD HIS APPEAL AGAINST AN EIGHT YEAR JAIL

SENTENCE DISMISSED TODAY TUESDAY.

BRIAN DAVID REED, A 33 YEAR-OLD FATHER OF TWO, BROKE INTO THE

WOMAN’S HOME AND PUSHED HER AND HER DAUGHTER UNDER A QUILT TELLING

THEM HE HAD A KNIFE, THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL IN LONDON HEARD.

REED, OF WESTVIEW, REYSWOOD, MORPETH, IN NORTHUMBERLAND,

THEN BEGAN TOUCHING HER THIGH SAYING HE HAD BEEN WATCHING HER FOR

MONTHS.

POLICE CALLED BY THE 22 YEAR-OLD WOMAN’S HUSBAND – WHO HAD

LEFT THE HOUSE WHEN REED FIRST BROKE IN – THEN ARRIVED AND ARRESTED

HIM, THE COURT WAS TOLD.

REED HAD SERVED A FIVE YEAR SENTENCE FOR RAPE IN 1973, AND

HAD OTHER CONVICTIONS FOR INDECENT ASSAULT, THE COURT HEARD.

”HE IS AN ABSOLUTE MENACE TO FEMALES.

IT WAS PROBABLY THE

INTERVENTION OF THE POLICE THAT STOPPED THE FULL OFFENCE OF RAPE

BEING COMMITTED,” SAID LORD JUSTICE STOCKER.

”THIS ASSAULT HAS HAD A SERIOUS EFFECT ON THE LADY.

SHE HAS

LEFT THE HOUSE TO STAY WITH HER PARENTS, SHE WAKENS AT NIGHT AND HAS

HAD TO BE ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL.

”

REED WAS JAILED FOR EIGHT YEARS AT NEWCASTLE CROWN COURT IN

NOVEMBER, 1985, FOR INDECENT ASSAULT AND BURGLARY WITH INTENT TO

STEAL AND WITH INTENT TO COMMIT RAPE.

HE HAD PLEADED GUILTY TO

BURGLARY WITH INTENT TO STEAL, BUT NOT GUILTY TO INDECENT

ASSAULT AND BURGLARY WITH INTENT TO RAPE.

MR MICHAEL CARTLIDGE, DEFENDING, SAID REED HAD TAPPED THE

WOMAN’S LEG TO COMFORT HER, AND HAD HAD TIME TO COMMIT RAPE BUT DID

NOT DO IT.

ENDS.

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