With the courageous victim movingly begging a judge to lock him down to keep others safe, a rapist has been sentenced to 15 years.
After his victim came forward to disclose non-recent violence, 61 Frederick Newton of Hylton Road, Sunderland, is now behind bars.
Supporting the woman and interviewing Newton, who claimed to be an innocent guy, specialist detectives
Newton was then charged with two counts of female under sixteen rape.
He insisted on his innocence and entered not guilty, but a jury at Newcastle Crown Court in June this year saw through his lies and declared him guilty of two rape counts.
The victim’s carefully written statement last month discussed the years of suffering she had gone through and begged the judge to take into account punishing Newton with the highest sentence to “protect others from him”.
He was sentenced to 15 years behind bars on August 14, registered on the Sex Offenders’ Register for Life, granted a restraining order prohibiting him from ever contacting the victim again, and issued a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.