First soccer lady statue

A RAPE victim brought her attacker to justice after she secretly recorded him admitting to his crime.

Jade Bailey-Reeks, 21, bravely waived her right to anonymity yesterday after Haydon Davis-Patton, 23, was jailed.

Care assistant Jade woke partially clothed beside Davis-Patton after telling him she did not want to have sex.

She had been dating him for a few weeks at the time of the attack so was unsure if it would be treated as rape.

But she became convinced of his guilt when he deleted messages he had sent to her relating to the attack.

So she secretly recorded his confession on her phone and took it to police.

She said: “I’m glad I did. He said it was what guys do, that men do it all the time. I now realise what he did was not OK. It was rape.” Jade had allowed him to stay in her bed, despite being tired and ill after a long day’s work, after he told her he was locked out of his home.

She said: “I made it clear: ‘I don’t want to sleep with you.’ When I woke up and my clothes were off I realised he’d had sex with me while I’d been asleep.”

In the recording she asks what he did, and he says: “You know what I did.” She replies: “I don’t... I was sleeping.”

Shopping centre worker Davis-Patton, of Newcastle, was jailed for four years at the city’s crown court, told to sign the sex offender register for life and banned from contacting Jade for 10 years.

Judge Edward Bindloss told him: “You betrayed her trust. She was vulnerable She was in her own bed.”

Jade from Newcastle said afterwards: “I feel a sense of vindication.” A FEMALE footballer will be the subject of a statue for the first time in Britain.

Lily Parr, an outside left who scored more than 980 goals in a 32-year career will be immortalised at the National Football Museum in Manchester next month.

Starting her career at Dick, Kerr Ladies FC in Preston as a full-back 100 years ago aged just 14, Lily moved to the left wing in 1921 and retired in 1951.

She died of breast cancer in 1978 aged 73.