A SOUTHALL WOMAN SUBJECTED TO A ‘NIGHTMARE’ SEX OR
A SOUTHALL WOMAN SUBJECTED TO A ‘NIGHTMARE’ SEX ORDEAL WAS
TOLD BY HER ATTTACKER THAT HE HAD PAID HER BOYFRIEND TO BRING HIM A
WOMAN, AN OLD BAILEY JURY HEAR ON TUESDAY.
THE 24-YEAR-OLD BUSINESS WOMAN WAS SAVAGELY BEATEN AND ‘HELD
HOSTAGE’ AT KNIFE POINT FOR THREE AND A HALF HOURS.
SHE LATER TOLD DETECTIVES SHE WAS RAPED THREE TIMES AND TOLD:
‘I’M GOING TO GET MY MONEY’S WORTH.
‘
THE WOMAN HAD BEEN EXPECTING TO GO TO A PARTY ON NOVEMBER 18,
LAST YEAR BUT HER BOYFRIEND AND ANOTHER MAN TOOK HER TO A SOUTHALL BED
SIT WHERE SHE WAS INTRODUCED TO HER ALLEGED ATTACKER, A 33-YEAR-OLD
BAKER.
HER BOYFRIEND SOON LEFT HER ALONE WITH THE MAN WHEN HE AND HIS
FRIEND WENT ‘TO GET CIGARETTES’.
THEY REALLY HAD NO INTENTION OF RETURNING, SAID MR BRIAN
HOULDER, PROSECUTING.
‘THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER WAS THAT THE BOYFRIEND NO LONGER
WISHED TO GO OUT WITH THE WOMAN AND HOPED TO FIX HER UP WITH HIS
FRIEND’, CONTINUED COUNSEL.
‘SHE WAS LEFT UNAWARE OF WHAT HER BOYFRIEND’S PLANS FOR HER
HAD BEEN.
‘ LEFT ALONE THE MAN LOCKED THE DOOR AND PUNCHED HER IN
THE FACE, THE JURY HEARD.
HE ORDERED HER TO STRIP AND WHEN SHE FAILED TO COMPLY, TORE
OFF HER BRA.
‘IN THE NEXT THREE HOURS SHE WAS VIOLENTLY RAPED THREE TIMES,
THREATENED WITH A LONG BREAD KNIFE, REPEATEDLY STRUCK AND ABUSED IN
WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN FAR WORSE THAN ANY NIGHTMARE’, SAID MR HOULDER.
THE ‘BRAVE GIRL’ STRUGGLED WITH HER ATTACKER AS HE PUNCHED AND
TRIED TO STRANGLE HER, CONTINUED COUNSEL.
‘SHE WAS LITERALLY
TERRIFIED.
SHE PLEADED WITH HIM TO LET HER GO BUT HE RAPED HER AGAIN.
THE ‘ARROGANT’ RAPIST EVEN FORCED HER TO CLEAN UP THE MESS
MADE IN HIS FLAT AS THEY STRUGGLED, SAID COUNSEL.
THREE AND A HALF HOURS LATER THE EXHAUSTED AND BADLY BEATEN
GIRL MADE A DASH FOR SAFETY.
HE CHASED HER BUT STOPPED WHEN HE SAW
HER APPROACH A CAR FULL OF PEOPLE.
HER FACE, HEAD AND NECK WERE ‘COVERED’ WITH BRUISES AND HER
LIPS WERE CUT, SAID MR HOULDER.
HER ALLEGED ATTACKER WAS ARRESTED HOURS LATER.
ASKED IF HE
HAD RAPED THE GIRL, HE WAS SAID TO HAVE REPLIED: ‘I DON’T REMEMBER.
THE MAN, OF SOUTHALL DENIES RAPE.
THE TRIAL CONTINUES
ENDS.
