Vile predator raped pensioner in flat

JAILED . . . rapist Wesley Wilson

16-year jail term for attack on 75 year old

A conman who raped a vulnerable pensioner almost 50 years his senior has been jailed for 16 years.

Wesley Wilson (27), of Naze Road, Coldhurst, tricked his way into the home of his 75-year-old victim.

Manchester Crown Court heard how Wilson conned his way into the first-floor property claiming things in the home needed to be checked. He began searching the flat before coercing her into the bedroom.

The elderly woman’s family watched an emotionless Wilson in the dock yesterday as sentence was passed.

Wilson pleaded guilty to rape in July, on the day of his planned trial.

Charlotte Crangle, prosecuting, said the vulnerable pensioner went to the police the following day after confiding in a relative. DNA linked Wilson to the crime.

Ms Crangle said: “The victim is going into a new home as she cannot go back to the flat.”

The court heard the victim had suffered severe short term memory lossm and shed two stones in weight since the attack.

The victim’s daughter said in a statement: “The attack has had a massive detrimental effect on my mum’s life.”

Detective Sergeant Liz Hopkinson of the police’s sexual offences unit, said afterwards: “Whatever adjective you could use — cowardly, despicable, reprehensible — it would not be enough to convey just how heinous his actions were.

“For the woman and her family, who have suffered so much, I can only hope that seeing him locked away gives them something to cling to as they move forward with their lives.”


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