TEEN RAPIST GETS 10 YEARS (From Warrington Guardian)

TEEN RAPIST GETS 10 YEARS

A TEENAGE intruder who raped a young mum at knifepoint has been jailed for 10 years at Warrington Crown Court

Kenneth Williamson, aged 18, from Greenwood Avenue in Orford, was found guilty of raping the woman twice in a horrific attack in her own home. Judge David Hale sentenced him to serve 10 years in a young offenders institute.

Giving evidence via video link at the three-day trial, the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sobbed as she described the brutal attack.

She told the jury that she had been dropped off at her home by friends in the early hours of a Saturday morning in August last year after finishing work. Seeing a young man loitering in the shadows she quickly let herself in, locked the door, closed the curtains and went to bed.

In tears she told the court: "I heard a horrible creak outside my bedroom and I knew someone was inside the house. The door handle went down and clicked and the door flew open and someone just stood there staring at me.

"I was absolutely petrified. It was

horrible. I said to him, 'Who are you and what are you doing in my house?' then he came up to me with a blade in his hand, put it to my throat and said, 'Don't worry it won't take long'.

"He tried to kiss me and was on top of me crushing my chest. I was saying to him, 'Why are you doing this? Get off me."

Williamson then raped the woman twice subjecting her to a terrifying ordeal.

She told the court that as he fled from her home Williamson said: 'Thanks for that, don't move.'

A police examination revealed that the woman, who was 19 at the time of the attack, had sustained cuts to her neck and thighs from the point of the blade.

Steven Everett, prosecuting, said that in the days following Williamson's arrest he denied ever having sex with the woman. However when confronted with DNA evidence, which revealed he did have sex with her, he broke down and changed his story saying that the sex was consensual.

For more read Thursday's Warrington Guardian.