SCHOOLBOY RAPIST GETS 4 1/2 YEARS MINIMUM ( 2005 ).

Teenager jailed for life for raping teacher

DAILY MAIL online

 04 July 2005

A schoolboy who raped a teacher at his school was given a life sentence at the Old Bailey today.

The 16-year-old, who was 15 at the time of the attack, was told he left the 28-year-old teacher mentally and physically scarred after subjecting her to a degrading ordeal.
Judge Christopher Moss said the youth, who was 15 at the time, had violated the woman's classroom - a place where she should have felt safe.
He said he agreed with a doctor who said his behaviour suggested that he had planned or rehearsed the rape in a fantasy.
The youth, who had pleaded guilty to rape at an earlier hearing, was told he would be detained during Her Majesty's Pleasure.

Parole

 

He will be eligible for parole after serving four-and-a-half years - but will not be released until doctors consider he is no longer a danger. ( SOME LiBERAL DO-GOODER WILL SEE HE GETS OUT BEFORE HE'S READY....my words )
Judge Moss lifted a court order protecting the youth's identity but stayed this until Friday afternoon after the defence said it wanted the decision reviewed by the High Court.
He ordered that Westminster City Boys School, central London, where the teacher was attacked after working only two days in September last year, could be identified.
The teenager's face crumpled in disbelief when the life sentence was passed and he marched from the dock, shrugging off the two security guards. A few minutes later, a wild screaming could be heard.
As the life sentence was read out, the defendant's family burst into tears and had to leave the public gallery.
Passing sentence, Judge Moss said: "This was a truly dreadful crime.
"You subjected your victim to the terror of a physical, sexually degrading and humiliating attack in her own classroom.
"This was a prolonged, persistent and violent rape.
"You left her physically and mentally scarred. She believed that you would carry out your threat to kill her.
"She said she considered her classroom her safe zone. You violated her place of safety."

'Glad to be alive'

 

After the case, the teacher told the Press Association: "I was very glad to be alive because I did not think I would be.
"I honestly thought that I was going to be murdered, on top of everything else."
She is now trying to rebuild her life but has not yet been able to return to teaching, a job she loved before the attack.
The teacher said she was "glad" that the youth will be locked up for a long time.
And she urged other women who have been rape victims to come forward.
In a statement issued through her union, the National Union of Teachers, she said: "The last few weeks of delays in sentencing have been very hard to cope with.
"Until sentencing was over, I felt I couldn't get on with putting my life back together again and returning to my career.
"I am glad the boy has been given a lengthy period of incarceration; not out of vengeance but to protect others from what I have been through. "Incarceration alone is not enough. He needs help and treatment.
"Had he received that help and treatment at an earlier stage, maybe I would not have suffered at his hands."
The court was told today that the 5ft 11in, powerfully-built teenager head-butted and threatened to kill the woman as she bravely fought him off.
But she was overpowered by the pupil and sexually assaulted. After the attack, the teacher ran naked to the headteacher's office.
The youth was arrested the next day, Brendan Kelly, prosecuting, told the court.
Mr Kelly said the youth ripped open the teacher's shirt and bit her left breast.
He then pulled off her trousers but she managed to hit him in the groin with her shin and continued to fight him off.
"The more she resisted, the more he continued to attack her," said Mr Kelly.
"All the time, he was trying to force her backwards on to a desk. She was quite clear his aim was to rape her.

'Threats'

 

"He said he was going to kill her over and over again."
The teacher had been knocked about the room, hitting furniture, as she tried to resist him. At one stage, she had bitten his penis as he tried to force it into her mouth.
She was eventually overpowered as the youth raped her orally. When it was over, she fled bleeding and naked.
Mr Kelly said the woman had the presence of mind to retain semen in her mouth, which she placed in a paper cup.
Colleagues had difficulty recognising her because of the blood all over face.
A psychiatrist said he regarded him "as a potentially dangerous young man currently at high risk of sexual violence".
Jeremy Dein, QC, defending, said the teenager had come from an "emotionally fraught" family background and had been bullied at school and suffered from a misconduct disorder. ( " WTF ?  !! "  my words )
The defence cited one previous conviction for carrying a bladed instrument but said there had been no previous convictions in relation to sexual offences.
"It clearly should never have happened. It was a despicable offence which cannot in any way, shape or form be overlooked," he said.
Police are holding an internal inquiry into the boy's background and their dealings with him.
It emerged that another woman made a complaint of attempted rape last June at the school.
The case was dropped after she withdrew the allegation and the attacker was never identified.
 

FURTHER

 

Rapist pupil named after teacher attack

 12 July 2005
DAILY MAIL online

 
A schoolboy given a life sentence for raping a teacher at his London school has been named today after failing in a High Court bid to keep his identity secret.
Sixteen-year-old Dwayne Best - now named for the first time - was told at the Old Bailey that he had left the 28-year-old teacher mentally and physically scarred after subjecting her to a degrading ordeal.
Lawyers for Best, who was 15 at the time of the attack, told two senior judges that naming him would put his life at risk, cause "very considerable risk" to his rehabilitation and significantly affect his wider family.
But Lord Justice Kennedy, sitting with Mr Justice Walker, rejected the plea for secrecy.
Best appeared before Judge Moss QC for sentence on July 4 and was sentenced to detention for life, with a notional term of nine years, of which he had to serve half before he would become eligible for release on parole.
At the same hearing the judge said an order made under section 39 of the 1933 Children and Young Persons Act preventing him from being identified by the press and media should be lifted.
But naming Best was delayed so that his lawyers could make today's last ditch bid to remain anonymous.
Rejecting the application, Lord Justice Kennedy said he was entirely satisfied that Judge Moss's intention had not been "to name and shame" but was acting in the interests of open justice.
The teacher, who remains anonymous, said she hoped that naming Best would help him accept responsibility for his actions.
"The end of the legal process gives me the opportunity to put the whole thing behind me and start to put my life back together," she said.
"Naming him may help him to accept responsibility for what he has done and recognise the gravity of his actions."
The teacher was not thought to have pressed for Best's name to be made public and had no strong feelings in favour or against lifting anonymity.