A man from Northampton has been jailed after he raped and assaulted a women, who was walking alone close to the the town centre. 36 year old Gintas Burinskas, of Victoria Road, was sentenced to ten years in prison after admitting the charges at Northampton Crown Court.
Detectives have paid tribute to the victim who, they said, showed "tremendous courage" throughout the trial.
A man from Cambridge has been jailed for three years after being convicted of raping a young boy when he was a teenager. 29-year-old Gavin Randall of Kingsway, Cambridge, abused the boy at an address in the city at some point between 1998 and 2001.
The boy, who was about 10 at the time of the offence, went to police in September 2011 to report the assault.
Police are appealing for information after a 24-year-old woman reported being raped in an alleyway at Upper Brook Street in Ipswich.
The woman was waiting for friends outside a public house in Upper Brook Street around 11.30pm on Friday 21 December and became engaged in conversation with a man, described as black, in his late 20s to 30s, of muscular build, around 5ft 9ins tall, with short black Afro hair and a moustache.
They then walked together in the direction of Sainsburys and went into the alleyway where the man raped the 24-year-old. He then left towards the Cox Lane car park where he got into a small car which then drove away.
A man has been jailed for nine-and-a-half years after raping a woman in Milton Keynes.
Anthony Newell, 35, from Hansworth, Birmingham, was sentenced at the Old Bailey yesterday.
Newell raped a 34-year-old woman twice at a property in the Coffee Hall area on 23rd April last year.
Det Con Liz Batchelor, from Bletchley police station, said:
“She (the victim) was put through a horrendous ordeal in a place where she should have been safe. I hope that this sentence provides her with some closure and allows her to get on with the rest of her life.”
A man has appeared before magistrates charged with raping a woman nearly 20 years ago.
Daniel Borgers, 41, appeared at Luton Magistrates' Court charged with rape under the 1956 Sexual Offences Act.
Borgers is suspected of raping a woman in Stotfold in October 1992.
Borgers, who used to live in Stotfold, was arrested by North Yorkshire Police on behalf of the Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Major Crime Unit (BHCMCU) in Scarborough on Sunday.
The case has been worked on for a number of years by the unit's cold case team.
Borgers, of Napier Crescent, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was remanded to appear at Luton Crown Court on August 28.
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A 23-year-old's been arrested on suspicion of raping an 18-year-old woman and is in police custody