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A convicted rapist who attacked a student at knife point while on day release from an open prison has been jailed for life. Neil Trennan, 61, forced himself on the 19-year-old student after following into her home in Sheffield, where he later admitted he had planned to inflict serious bodily harm and commit a "violent rape". Sheffield Crown Court heard Trennan had absconded from HMP North Sea Camp, an open prison in Lincolnshire, on the day of the attack.
Jailing him for a minimum of ten years, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC said Trennan was a "sexual deviant ... aroused by sexual violence", describing it as "astonishing" he was allowed to leave the prison unsupervised.
The court heard Trennan had already been serving two life sentences, one for raping a woman in 1991 after breaking into her home and knocking her unconscious and a second imposed in 2002 when he escaped from custody while on day release and attacked a woman with a brick in a public toilet in Norwich. Outlining the attack on 10 July, prosecutor Gordon Stables said Trennan had admitted following the woman "after seeing her in the street and targeted her… intending to commit a violent rape".
A convicted rapist who attacked a student at knife point while on day release from an open prison has been jailed for life. Neil Trennan, 61, forced himself on the 19-year-old student after following into her home in Sheffield, where he later admitted he had planned to inflict serious bodily harm and commit a "violent rape". Sheffield Crown Court heard Trennan had absconded from HMP North Sea Camp, an open prison in Lincolnshire, on the day of the attack.
Jailing him for a minimum of ten years, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC said Trennan was a "sexual deviant ... aroused by sexual violence", describing it as "astonishing" he was allowed to leave the prison unsupervised.
The court heard Trennan had already been serving two life sentences, one for raping a woman in 1991 after breaking into her home and knocking her unconscious and a second imposed in 2002 when he escaped from custody while on day release and attacked a woman with a brick in a public toilet in Norwich. Outlining the attack on 10 July, prosecutor Gordon Stables said Trennan had admitted following the woman "after seeing her in the street and targeted her… intending to commit a violent rape".
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