A HACKNEY MAN WAS CLEARED OF RAPE BUT SENTENCED TO

A HACKNEY MAN WAS CLEARED OF RAPE BUT SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS
YOUTH CUSTODY WHEN AN OLD BAILEY JURY CONVICTED HIM OF ROBBERY.

THE 20-YEAR-OLD ADMITTED TO POLICE THAT HE HAD GONE TO THE
FLAT, ALSO IN HACKNEY, BECAUSE OF A DISAGREEMENT WITH THE WOMAN’S
HUSBAND OVER MONEY.

HE SAID HE HAD BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY ANOTHER MAN AND KNEW
NOTHING ABOUT THE ALLEGED RAPE.

PROSECUTION ALLEGED THAT HE HAD BURST IN THE BEDROOM AND DRAWN
A GUN ON THE 40-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHILE HER SON, AGED 3, SLEPT SOUNDLY
BESIDE HIS MOTHER.

THE MAN, WHO DID NOT GIVE EVIDENCE, WAS FOUND GUILTY OF
ROBBING HER OF A SMALL AMOUNT OF CASH AND CIGARETTES.

ENDS.