Woman ‘sexually assaulted by escaped psychiatric patient’

A patient dragged a woman into a garden to sexually assault her after escaping from a psychiatric ward, a court heard. Dylan Coatleven, 20, pounced on the woman and hauled her into a front garden in Peckham, southeast London, before pinning her to the ground around 8pm on 12 April. The distressed woman managed to flee the scene and called the police, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard. Describing the incident, prosecutor David Burns said Coatleven ‘jumped in’ from behind the woman…

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