raping a 14-year old girl.
According to Daily Mail, at around 4.30pm mr Edgerton approached a
13-year-old girl, who was sitting on the steps of the village
community centre and asked her for directions to the Prince of Wales
pub.
She refused to accompany him there and Edgerton left when a male
friend of the girl's arrived to meet her.
However, less than two hours later another schoolgirl, aged 14, who
cannot be named for legal reasons, was not so lucky.
John Philpotts, prosecuting, told the court: 'The defendant had seen
the girl at the chip shop, asked her to show him where the Prince of
Wales pub was, and, as they walked in the village he held her tightly,
grabbed her hair, and threatened her not to raise the alarm.
'He dragged her into Blast Woods where she was raped.
'Despite her ordeal, she was able to send messages which said 'help'
and 'raping me' from her mobile phone onto the Facebook site of her
sister. She got messages to her family to try and explain where she
was. But although the messages alerted her mother and sister, who
eventually discovered her collapsed by the roadside, they were too
late to stop her terrifying ordeal.
Judge Merfyn Hughes criticised the police and Crown Prosecution
Service after it emerged they had missed three chances to catch her
attacker, David Edgerton, in the months leading up to the rape.
David Edgerton, 22, a heroin addict, was found guilty of the abduction
and rape of a 14-year-old girl along with a number of other offences
and will be sentenced next month.
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