Teenager ‘raped when she took a shortcut home’

A teenager was raped in the grounds of the Imperial War Museum as she took a shortcut home after a night out with friends, a court heard. Eleas Godwin, 43, jumped on the 17-year-old as she walked through the Tibetan Peace Garden in the early hours, Inner London crown court heard. He hit her head on the ground as she tried to fight the stranger off and he began throttling her when she tried to scream, it is claimed. The…