Telford rape jury told of attack aftermath
Thursday 14th April 2011, 11:38PM BST.
A woman dragged through undergrowth and raped in woods by a railway line in Telford called her ex-boyfriend for help moments after the attack, a court heard.
The victim was grabbed from behind on a path near the A442 in Randlay at about 5.15pm on August 11, 2009 and raped by a man in the bushes. Jamie Findlater, 19, from Doddington, Hollinswood, Telford is on trial at Shrewsbury Crown Court.
He denies three charges of rape and one charge of robbery in relation to the incident.
Denis Desmond, prosecuting, read out a statement from the victim’s ex-boyfriend, who said he was in Telford when he received the call from the victim, who is in her 20s.
The statement said: “I had been in a relationship with the victim for a number of months but had split up only days before the incident.
“I was in Madeley in the car when a call came up on my phone at 5.25pm from my ex-girlfriend.
“When I answered she sounded extremely distressed and asked me to come and pick her up from Randlay, but she wouldn’t tell me what was wrong.
“She told me she had been attacked and she did not know what to do. I asked her if she wanted to go to the police and she nodded, so I took her straight to the police station.”
Keith Moore, who worked on Stafford Park at the time of the assault, told the jury that around the time of the attack he saw a man run over the Stafford Park roundabout.
He said: “A man who was running like he was competing in the Olympics ran out in front of my car and did not even stop to look what was coming. Meanwhile, Jayne Morrow, a software developer, told the court that she had taught Findlater on a course she held when he was at college.
She said: “He was always what I thought, a nice lad. He was a normal teenager who was keen to work and I thought he seemed a nice man.”
The trial continues.
By Andrew Morris
UK News
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