Seven years more for convicted sex offender

A sex beast who terrorised a mother and daughter after following them from a bus while he was on day release from a psychiatric unit has been jailed for seven years.

Andrew Johnson, 47, was locked up for life following a barbaric attack on a mother and her 10-year-old daughter in 1999 which horrified an experienced Old Bailey judge.

Scar-faced Johnson, also known as Andrew Le Feuvre, pretended to be a policeman to get into the woman’s south London flat in September 1998.

The mum, 35, submitted to his sickening demands, fearing for her daughter’s life after Johnson said he had a knife and would kill them.

Former soldier Johnson admitted raping the mother twice and attempting to rape the child.

Handing him three life sentences Mr Justice Blofeld told him: ‘You have pleaded guilty to a number of the most horrific sexual offences which, without exaggeration, if not the most serious, certainly fall into the worst one or two I have heard.’

Johnson was sent to Broadmoor hospital indefinitely but the judge made an order to serve his sentence in jail if cured of his psychopathic disorder under a section 45A of the Mental Health Act.

He was then sentenced to six and a half years in prison in January 2016 for attempting to rape a woman in Jersey in 1995 after forcing her way into her home.

The attack was described by the judge as ‘horrific, planned and sustained’.

Johnson was transferred to the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham, south London, but he was granted unsupervised leave from his psychiatric unit on February 2 this year.

The decision was approved by the Ministry of Justice.

He broke his curfew when he made his way to the Slug and Lettuce in Sutton to get drunk, Croydon Crown Court heard.

In his police interview he admitted drinking six or seven pints and addling his brain with the drug spice while trying to chat up a woman at the bar.

Johnson was travelling on the bus back to the hospital when he got off to follow a woman and her 13-year-old daughter as they made their way home.

The girl spotted the rapist tracking her and staring at her intently from behind the garden fence while her mother fumbled for the keys to the front door.

Once inside their family home the teenager felt the sickening swell of Johnson’s stomach pressed against the middle of her back.

Johnson warned the mother as he approached her: ‘Do as I say and you won’t get hurt.’

Together with her mother she began to scream, alerting her father who was in the house.

Quickly he confronted Johnson and chased him out before following him calmly for ten minutes while his partner called police, who arrested him ‘some distance away.’

Judge Deborah Charles told Johnson, who has an ugly scar beneath his right eye: ‘This defendant harbours a sexual attraction to female children, he is sexually aroused by sexual violence, pubescent girls and incest.

‘The offence was committed after he had been partaking for many years in sexual behaviour treatment.

‘He has little or no control over his sexual impulses. This defendant’s previous convictions and the facts of the incident offence, plainly demonstrate he is dangerous to females.

‘He poses a significant threat of causing serious harm to members of the public. There is no effective treatment for his personality disorder that can be given in hospital.

Judge Charles added: ‘The offence was committed in this victim’s home. This defendant specifically targeted a vulnerable child with her mother as he had done in the past. I am in no doubt he intended to commit a sexual offence.’

Warwick Tatford, prosecuting, said: ‘The background to this case is unusual because the defendant when he committed this offence was serving a life sentence for rapes and other sexual assaults.

‘He had been transferred to the Bethlem Hospital under Section 45 A of the Mental Health Act’

Dr Tim McInerny, who was responsible for Johnson being let out on day release, said he was completing programmes on his personality disorder and substance abuse.

Mr Tatford said one of the reasons Johnson was transferred from Broadmoor to Bethlem Hospital in 2012 was because doctors thought he was getting better.

In October 2017 he was moved to the low security Chaffinch Ward at the Bethlem Hospital in preparation for his release next year.

Mr Tatford added: ‘Part of his release plan, designed to help him if he were granted parole, was to allow his unsupervised release for eight hours.

‘Having been granted substantial freedom and considerable trust, he then decided to use his trust to attend a public house and drink a large amount of alcohol and smoke spice.’

But he was spurned by a women he met at the pub and the judge said had become aroused during the conversation, left frustrated and went on the prowl.

Francis McGrath, defending, said Johnson served in the Royal Hampshire Regiment before he was discharged on medical grounds.

Mr McGrath said he was born by a 15-year-old single mother in Salisbury and then put into care where he claims he suffered sexual abuse.

He added: ‘A child victim of serious sexual abuse going on to commit serious sexual offences in turn.’

Johnson, who is currently held in HMP Wandsworth, has a number of aliases including Andrew Le Feuvre and Andrew Hannam, and was brought up in children’s homes in Jersey.

He has 52 previous convictions including a serious indecent assault on a girl of six in 1996.

Johnson admitted trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence and was jailed for seven years.

He will remain on licence after he has served his sentence.

If he is ever released from prison he must give police his personal details including his address and any change of name.

Ealier a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: ‘Restricted patients may be allowed temporarily into the community at the request of a doctor and only after an extremely tough risk assessment.’
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