Pensioner admits attempted rape of 92-year-old woman

AN elderly man yesterday admitted the attempted rape of a 92-year-old friend of his estranged wife.

Cyril Hewitt, 81, had done odd jobs at the home of Gertrude Lang, a partially-sighted and frail old woman. But one night, almost 11 years ago, he disguised his identity and attacked the defenceless pensioner in her home in what police called “an appalling way”. He then played the part of the concerned friend when contacted by Lang’s family afterwards and even went back to the house, apparently to help her, police said.

He was charged last December, nearly a decade after the assault in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, on January 7, 2000. Lang died in November 2005, without seeing her attacker brought to justice.