Rapist gets 12 years for attack on elderly woman

A rapist was branded ‘immoral and disgusting’ by his own barrister after he attacked a 78-year-old woman in her own home. Jason Batchelor, 46, was soaking wet when he turned up to the Croydon home of his elderly victim as she ate breakfast before a planned game of bridge. Believing he was knocking on her French windows to ask for a change of clothes or a dry towel, she opened the door to tell him to go away. But Batchelor…