Daily Mail
December 16, 2014
A rapist who had to have cold water poured over him by strangers to stop him attacking a woman in broad daylight has been jailed for eight years.
Gerald Malcolm was attacking a woman so drunk she could not walk or talk on the side of the road when shocked motorists pulled over shortly after 4pm in April.
A couple poured water over the 48-year-old who had plied the woman with alcohol at a pub near his home in Halesowen, West Midlands, before launching the attack.
Malcolm, originally from Jamaica, was jailed for eight years at Wolverhampton Crown Court .
The court heard how he met his 28-year-old victim at a library before convincing her to join him in a pub.
He then took her back to his home where the woman drank more alcohol and became unwell. After offering to walk her home, he was walking by on the roadside when he launched his attack.
Speaking after his sentencing the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she was so drunk she could barely move or speak.
‘The assault has had a lasting effect on me; I still cannot believe that this man attacked me and I don’t know how I got so drunk.