CENTRAL NEWS PRESS ROOM CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
CENTRAL NEWS
PRESS ROOM
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD BAILEY
LONDON EC4
21 NOV 86
01 236 0116
FIEND 1
A SEX FIEND, WHO FLED WITH HIS TROUSERS DOWN WHEN HIS
VICTIM FOUGHT BACK, WAS JAILED FOR SIX YEARSON FRIDAY.
NURSING SISTER MARGARET KELLY, 26, WOKE TO FIND A MAN
BRANDISHING A KNIFE AT THE END OF HER BED,.
SAID MR JOHN NUTTING,
PROSECUTING.
MARK MAXWELL, 23, HAD CLIMBED THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW OF THE
GUYS HOSPITAL NURSES HOME IN KIPLING STREET, SOUTHWARK, SOUTH EAST
LONDON.
HE TOLD THE SCREAMING WOMAN: ‘IF YOU DON’T SHUT UP I WILL
REALLY HURT YOU.
‘
MAXWELL SLAMMED A PILLOW OVER THE TERRIFIED SISTER’S HEAD
AND SLASHED ONE OF HER BREASTS WITH HIS KNIFE.
HE ALSO ASSAULTED
HER SEXUALLY, THE COURT HEARD.
EVEN THOUGH THE KNIFE WAS HELD AT HER THROAT, THE BRAVE
NURSE KICKED OUT AT THE INTRUDER.
HE FLED FROM THE ROOM WITH
HIS TROUSERS ROUND HIS ANKLES AS A STILL SCREAMING MISS KELLY AIMED
PUNCHES AT HIM.
HE WAS ARRESTED TWO DAYS LATER WHEN HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO
BURGLE A NEARBY BUILDING.
HE WAS RECOGNISED BY THE FULL
DESCRIPTION OF HIM THEY HAD BEEN GIVEN BY SISTER KELLY.
MAXWELL, A PAINTER OF DECORATOR, OF MANCIPLE STREET,
BERMONDSEY, PLEADED GUILTY TO BURGLARY, ATTEMPTED
BURGLARY, INDECENT ASSAULT AND CAUSING ACTUAL BODILY HARM IN MAY
LAST.
HE WAS SAID TO HAVE TWO PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS FOR INDECENT
ASSAULT ON WOMEN.
ENDS
