Sex predator lured girl from bus stop saying he needed help and then raped her

Robert Anthony Ryan, 42, was handed a jail sentence of eight years and one month for raping an underage lady (Image: North Information and Image)

An underage lady was left ‘bodily sick’ after a vile predator lured her into his dwelling below the false pretext he wanted assist, earlier than raping her.

Robert Anthony Ryan, of Trimdon Colliery, approached the sufferer at a bus cease in County Durham in the summertime of 2009 earlier than persuading her to go to his deal with the place he carried out a terrifying intercourse assault.

Durham Crown Courtroom heard that the 42-year-old escorted her again to the bus cease the place she vomited and warned her ‘to not inform anybody’.

Three yr later, the lady confided in a member of the family but it surely was not till she started counselling for nervousness in 2018 that she reported the rape to the police.

On the sentencing listening to, the court docket was informed of the long-term impact the horrific incident has had on her and the way she felt she needed to transfer away from the North East when she turned 16 because of this.

In a sufferer influence assertion, she outlined the distrust she now has in different individuals, usually, however with males, particularly, and the nervousness she has suffered since.

Durham Crown Courtroom was informed of the long-term impact the horrific incident has had on the sufferer (Image: PA)

When Ryan was lastly arrested in 2020, he insisted that the sufferer ‘willingly’ had intercourse with him and maintained that lie till the day of his trial, simply earlier than Christmas.

He then pleaded responsible and the court docket heard of different intercourse offences he has on his file from 2009 and 2016.

Decide James Adkin mentioned he considers Ryan a harmful offender, notably to youthful females.

He continued: ‘There’s a sample of concentrating on youngsters for intercourse and the writer of the report factors to him behaving in an unpredictable, uncontrolled, predatory approach.’

Ryan was handed a jail sentence of eight years and one month, of which he should serve a minimum of two-thirds earlier than being eligible for parole.

The predator was additionally made topic of lifetime circumstances of each a Sexual Hurt Prevention Order and notification necessities as a intercourse offender, and was given a lifetime restraining order, prohibiting him from contacting the sufferer.

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