Girl, 10, told ‘pretend we are lovers’

A 49-YEAR-OLD man accused of carrying out a series of rapes in south-east England asked a 10-year-old girl to “pretend they were lovers” during a five-hour ordeal in his car, a court heard yesterday.

Antoni Imiela forced the girl into his car at knifepoint in Birmingham, Maidstone Crown Court was told.

The alleged attack came just two days after Imiela had given a DNA sample to officers investigating other attacks, who had called at his home in Appledore, near Ashford, Kent.