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A pathological rapist has been jailed for six years (13 September 2012)

Date: 13/09/2012
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, A pathological rapist has been jailed for six years

Joseph Moran, 19, of Sneinton, Nottingham, who had raped a young woman who was thrown off her last bus home as she was 20p short of the fare, has been jailed for six years.
He had claimed that he had stumbled across the 23 year old victim and had helped her on the night of the attack last December.
The young woman who had been out with friends was refused to travel in the bus as she was short of 20p of the £5 fare and as she was walking home she was attacked.
Judge James Sampson told Moran, that he had claimed to had come across her and had come to her aid a line which he had maintained throughout his trial.
The judge described the offender as a pathological liar and a man without an ounce of remorse or shame.
The judge ordered Moran, who subjected the woman to an appalling and protracted 25-minute attack, to serve an indeterminate sentence with a minimum term of six and half years.
The woman had begun walking along a road out of the city to be picked up by her mother whom she called after she was left stranded on the road. She sustained 26 injuries across her body. She was dragged by her neck into the undergrowth in the Forest Recreation Ground.
Judge Sampson said the victim was ‘intelligent, hard-working, brave, full of the optimism of youth and who, but for want of a small act of kindness, was left isolated and vulnerable in the small hours.
Moran had pounced on the young woman in an attack that was fuelled by drink and drugs, the court heard. Shortly before, he had stolen a car and had a fight with a friend.
He was disturbed in the midst of the attack by the blue flashing lights of a police car after officers pulled over the victim’s mother because she was driving slowly searching for her daughter
It was then that Moran emerged from bushes and told them he had found the young woman. She was discovered just after 4am, unconscious, and having suffered terrible injuries.
She was taken to hospital and police began an immediate investigation. Moran was arrested within minutes.
Prosecutor Michael Auty told the court the victim had been left permanently scarred by the attack and was now fearful of walking anywhere alone because her confidence was so severely dented
Moran was ordered by Judge Sampson to serve the sentence in a young offenders’ institute.
Detective Chief Inspector Rob Griffin, who was in charge of the probe, welcomed the sentence and slammed Moran for causing women to ‘feel unsafe on the streets at night.

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