Rapists ‘like predators attacking wounded creature’

Two men who drove around in a van adapted for sex with a mattress in the back acted like a predator attacking a wounded creature, the sentencing judge said as he jailed them for 10 years yesterday.

One of the accused was only 16 at the time of the attack while his accomplice was 18.

Mr Justice Paul Carney said of their youth: “Each of these accused left their childhood long behind them on the date of the perpetration of these outrages. To give them special treatment for their youth would be like treating the perpetrators of patricide as orphans.”