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The jury which spent more than nine hours over two days deliberating, cleared a second 15-year-old youth and one aged 16 of the same offence.Īdele celebrates 34th birthday wearing custom Carolina Herrera mini-dress before enjoying PJ party with pals: 'I've never been happier!'ĭo opposites REALLY attract? Why reality show Beauty and the Geek Australia is set to be your next must-watch series She would be sentenced at the Old Bailey on May 8 with Edwards, of Brentford, West London, and 15-year-old who admitted rape at the beginning of the two-and-a-half week trial. To allow her freedom now would entail a risk of her absconding. "Given this was a particularly vile and horrifying offence of sexual brutality, a substantial custodial sentence is inevitable," he warned. Marsh, of Laleham Walk, Margate, Kent, initially showed no reaction as the seven woman and five men trying her rejected her protestations of innocence and found her guilty of rape on July 22 last year.īut when Judge Timothy Pontius adjourned sentence and rejected a defence application for bail in the interim and remanded her in custody, tears began streaming down her face. Police were called and later found some of her clothing in the canal.
She only stopped when she reached her front door, sobbing hysterically.
The woman, still naked, ran more than a mile altogether, mostly through the all but deserted streets of night-time London.
A surprised cab driver saw her and then spotted two youths chasing her. She was again chased, but this time was more fortunate. The helpless victim - known only as Miss X for legal reasons - was then kicked and punched repeatedly and, at one stage, dragged naked along a gravel path, lacerating her bare skin.įearing that if she did not escape she might not survive, she made another run for it.
When the first youth had finished, Marvin Edwards, 18, also raped her, London's Blackfriars Crown Court was told.Įventually the screaming victim, who had earlier been hurled into the murky water of the Grand Union Canal in Ladbroke Grove, West London, wriggled free from her attackers, struggled to her feet and made a run for it.īut the woman's desperate bid for freedom was short lived and she was brought crashing to the ground after just a few yards. Others in the 14-strong group - one aged just 12 - stood around during an shouting encouragement as the sordid scene unfolded shortly after midnight. She punched the 37-year-old victim in the face, called her a "slag", and then ripped off her top before she was gang-raped on a canal towpath.Ī 15-year-old boy, who tore off her trousers, then forced the woman to have sex.
A teenage girl, who pinned a woman to the ground during a "vile and horrifying" sex attack, was today found guilty of rape.Ĭlaire Marsh, 18, is thought to be the youngest of the few females ever to be convicted of such an offence in this country.