CENTRAL NEWS SERVICE, PRESS ROOM, CENTRAL CRIMINAL

CENTRAL NEWS SERVICE, PRESS ROOM, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, OLD BAILEY,
EC4, TEL:236-O116.

HIGH COURT, DECEMBER 9, 1986/AVM.

HONEY

A LEEDS MAN DESCRIBED AS ‘A MENACE TO WOMEN’ HAS BEEN REFUSED
LEAVE TO APPEAL AGAINST CONVICTIONS FOR KIDNAPPING AND RAPE AND
AGAINST HIS I5-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE.

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN HONEY, 33, OF HOWDEN GARDENS, WAS CONVICTED
AT LEEDS CROWN COURT LAST NOVEMBER.

LORD JUSTICE O’CONNOR SAID IN THE CRIMINAL APPEAL COURT IN
LONDON TODAY [TUESDAY];’THE JUDGE SAID HE WAS A MENACE TO WOMEN AND HE
QUITE PLAINLY WAS.

‘ON TWO OCCASIONS HE STOPPED WOMEN DRIVING ALONE AT NIGHT BY
PRETENDING SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH THEIR CARS.

‘HE TOOK THEM OFF IN HIS CAR.

HE RAPED ONE AND ATTEMPTED TO
RAPE ANOTHER’.

THE JUDGE SAID HONEY ROBBED ANOTHER WOMAN ON HER OWN BY
LEAPING OUT OF HIS CAR AND GRABBING HER HANDBAG.

HONEY WAS CHARGED WITH TWO KIDNAPPINGS, ONE RAPE, ONE
ATTEMPTED RAPE, A ROBBERY, A THEFT AND TAKING AND DRIVING AWAY A MOTOR
VEHICLE.

HIS APPEAL APPLICATION WAS BASED ON THE COMPLAINT THAT HE
SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TRIED ON ALL THE CHARGES TOGETHER.

‘THEY WERE EXTREMELY SERIOUS OFFENCES’, SAID LORD JUSTICE
O’CONNOR.

‘IT WAS QUITE RIGHT THEY SHOULD BE TRIED TOGETHER’.

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