Rapist left his baby alone and went out to attack a woman
A father left his 10-month-old daughter alone at home so he could go out and rape a stranger.
Mark Williams was left to babysit while his partner enjoyed a night out with friends.
But the 25-year-old became restless and went for a walk at about 2am.
He approached a 44-year-old woman in Malins Road, Buckland, Portsmouth, who was walking home from an evening out. Williams dragged her into an alleyway where he raped her.
After he fled, the victim was found sobbing on the ground by a passer-by and the police were alerted.
Williams was arrested the next night – thanks to a DNA sample taken 18 months earlier in an unrelated incident. When interviewed by police he admitted carrying out the rape in the early hours of March 28.
But police suspected him of others and quizzed him about an incident in Clydebank Road, also in Buckland, on June 28, last year. He then confessed to trying to rape a woman there by dragging her into some shrubbery at around 2am. On that occasion he was disturbed by some passers-by and ran off. But he then returned and continued the assault, punching the 47-year-old in the face before he fled.
At Portsmouth Crown Court, Williams was jailed indefinitely after admitting one count of rape and one of attempted rape.
Detective-Sergeant Richard Sellwood, from the Major Crime Team, said: 'A very dangerous predatory rapist has been locked up, who I have little doubt would have gone on to rape again had he not been captured. The survivors of these two attacks have been very brave and are relieved that no-one else will have to go through their ordeals.
'DNA analysis led us to this offender within 36 hours of the commission of his offence and this is clearly an endorsement of the system that has recorded Williams' DNA on the national database after what was a relatively minor domestic dispute with neighbours 18 months previously.'
A psychiatric report on Williams, of Cairo Terrace, Buckland, found he had been fantasising about raping women.
Judge Roger Hetherington imposed a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection and said
Williams could not be considered for release for a minimum of three years. He can only be released when he no longer poses a threat to society.
His name has also been added to the Sex Offenders' Register indefinitely.
Judge Hetherington said: 'It's quite clear from the psychiatric report that you had fantasised about having sex with strangers and also, it seems, rape of strangers.
'Unfortunately for these two victims your fantasies were mirrored by your actual offending behaviour.'
VICTIMS DESCRIBE TERRIBLE COST OF ASSAULTS
In her victim impact statement read out in court, Williams' first victim said his arrest had helped give her 'peace of mind'.
But she said that it was dreadful he was only caught 'at the expense of another woman who had to suffer because of him'.
She said the assault had affected her so badly that during the summer of 2008 she was too frightened to even open the windows of her own home.
The court heard how Williams' second victim was said to have become frightened and unable to sleep since the attack.
Her victim impact statement concluded: 'This will haunt me for the rest of my life.'
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