Steve Nolan
Daily Mail
August 2, 2013
A judge has branded a 53-year-old man a ‘serial rapist’ when jailing him for attacking two women telling him he should never have been found not guilty of two earlier assaults.
Judge Murray Shanks spoke out as he sentenced Colin Blake for attacking a woman in her own home last year and raping a 14-year-old girl in 2010.
He said that he had ‘no doubt’ that Blake had also forced himself on two further victims, aged 13 and 26.
Blake was tried for this alleged assaults in two separate hearings in 2006 and 2007 but found not guilty on both occasions.
Sentencing Blake at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Judge Shanks said: ‘Somehow you were acquitted by a jury of two previous rapes in 2006 and 2007 of a 13-year-old and a 26-year-old.
‘As I say, you have managed to persuade juries on those occasions and were found not guilty.
‘I have no doubt whatsoever that you raped those women.
‘In other words I am sure you are a serial rapist and you are capable of raping more women.
‘You have lied through all four of the trials and even though acquitted it did not influence your behaviour, you just carried on as before.
He added: ‘You appear to have no insight as to the harm you have caused to other people.
‘All the evidence I have heard suggests you are a man who thinks he is entitled to sex at any time without regard to others’ feelings or even their age.’
Blake targeted his most recent victim, aged 26, in her own home in Woodford Green, east London, in August last year.