A YOUNG MOTHER WAS RAPED IN HER HOME ON NEW YEAR’S

A YOUNG MOTHER WAS RAPED IN HER HOME ON NEW YEAR’S EVE WHILE HER

TWO YEAR OLD DAUGHTER LAY SLEEPING, AN OLD BAILEY COURT HEARD ON

THURSDAY.

BUT HER TACKER, 21 YEAR OLD MICHAEL CAROLAN, HAD SPAT ON THE

WALL AT THE GIRL’S FLAT – AND LEFT EVIDENCE THAT HELPED LEAD HIM TO A

SIX YEAR JAIL SENTENCE.

THE MOTHER WAS ALONE WITH HER DAUGHTER WHEN CAROLAN, A ‘DISTANT

FRIEND’, VISITED HER LAST NEW YEAR’S EVE.

AFTER A FEW DRINKS CAROLAN, OF BYLANDS CLOSE, ABBEY WOOD, BEGAN

TO ‘GET FRESH’, FEELING HER BODY AS THEY SAT ON THE SOFA.

MINUTES LATER, AS THE TERRIFIED WOMAN STRUGGLED TO FREE HERSELF,
HE THREW HER TO THE FLOOR AND RAPED HER, THE COURT HEARD.

CAROLAN DENIED THE ASSAULT.

HE HAD TOLD POLICE AFTER HIS ARREST

THAT NOTHING HAD HAPPENED.

‘THERE WAS NO SEXUAL CONTACT BETWEEN US,’ HE INSISTED.

‘AFTER A

DRINK AND A CHAT I LEFT AT 10 O’CLOCK SHARP.

‘
BUT DURING THE TRIAL THE SOBBING VICTIM TOLD THE COURT HOW

CAROLAN HAD FORCED HER T0 DANCE WHILE HE RUBBED HIMSELF AGAINST HER

BODY.

‘HE WAS SITTING NEXT TO ME ON THE SOFA AND I STARTED CRYING WHEN

HE TRIED TO UNDO MY BRA,’ SHE TOLD THE COURT.

‘I WAS TRYING TO PUSH HIM OFF PUT HE TOLD ME TO LET HIM DO IT OR

HE WOULD PINCH ME VERY HARD.

‘HE GOT HOLD OF MY ARMS AND PULLED ME TO THE FLOOR.

I TRIED TO
CRAWL AWAY BUT HE WAS TOO STRONG FOR ME.

THE PRETTY BRUNETTE WENT ON: ‘I WAS SHOUTING AND SCREAMING AS HE
RAPED ME BUT HE TOLD ME ‘JUST GIVE ME WHAT I WANT AND I’LL BE GONE’.

THEN HE STARTED FOAMING AT THE MOUTH AND SPAT AGAINST THE WALL.

‘
AFTER THE WOMAN’S ORDEAL CAROLAN TOLD HER: ‘IF YOU TELL ANYONE,

YOU’RE DEAD.

‘
BUT THE SALIVA FOUND ON THE WALL OF HER FLAT HELPED TO CONVICT

HIM.

THE JURY WAS TOLD FORENSIC EXPERTS IDENITIFIED IT AS COMING

FROM HIM.

ENDS