A SEX OFFENDER ON LICENCE FROM A SECURE MENTAL HOS
A SEX OFFENDER ON LICENCE FROM A SECURE MENTAL HOSPITAL
SUBJECTED A WOMAN HE MET THROUGH A SINGLES CLUB TO A ‘NIGHT OF
HORROR’.
JACOB RAMSELL, 52, HAD BEEN COMMITTED TO THE SECURE HOSPITAL
FOR AN INDEFINATE PERIOD AFTER HE SET FIRE TO HIS FORMER WIFE’S HOME
IN 1974.
HE WAS RELEASED ON LICENSE IN 1980 AND WAS LIVING IN A
BUNGALOW IN LAYFIELD CLOSE, HENDON, UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE
SOCIAL SERVICES AND THE CARE OF A DOCTOR.
THE 57-YEAR-OLD WOMAN MOVED TO LONDON FROM SKEGNESS TO BE
NEAR HER LOVER AFTER MEETING HIM THROUGH A SINGLES CLUB.
BUT ONLY DAYS AFTER HE HELPED HER MOVE HOUSE HIS MOOD CHANGED
VIOLENTLY, SAID MR TIMOTHEY CASSEL, PROSECUTING.
HE DAMANDED SHE BECOME A PROSTITUTE AND HE THREATENED HER
WITH A RAZER AND A KNIFE.
ON NOVEMBER 11, LAST YEAR, ‘HE SUBJECTED HER TO A NIGHT OF
HORROR’ WHEN HE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER IN HIS HOME, SAID MR CASSEL.
SHE WAS ‘BITTEN, CUT AND HIT’, THE JURY HEARD.
THE NEXT MORNING SHE RAN TO HER NEW HOME AND TOLD NEIGHBOURS.
RAMSELL HAD LEFT HER ALONE AFTER ORDERING HER TO CLEAN UP THE HOUSE.
POLICE ARRESTED HIM AN HOUR LATER AT BUNGLOW.
HE WAS IN BED
DRUNK.
THE COURT HEARD THAT A WARRENT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HIS RECALL
TO RAMPTON.
HE WAS CONVICTED OF BUGGARY AND ASSAULT CAUSING ACTUAL BODILY
HARM.
HE WAS ACQUITTED OF FALSE IMPRISONMENT AND OTHER SEXUAL
OFFENCES.
THE COURT HEARD HE HAD PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS FOR INDECENTLY
ASSAULTING TO GIRLS AGED 11 AND 15, AND ASSAULTING A WOMAN HE HAD
LIVED WITH.
THE RECORDER OF LONDON SIR JAMES MISKIN, QC, REMANDED
RAMSELL, WHO HAS BEEN IN CUSTODY SINCE THE ATTACK, FOR MEDICAL
REPORTS.
ENDS.
