Sick rapist sent victim card ‘from dead child’

WOMAN ‘SCARED OF SEX OFFENDER BEING RELEASED FROM PRISON’

A RAPIST sent his victim a card from prison ‘written by her dead child’.

Sick Ryan Brown posted the handmade card addressed to ‘mummy’ despite knowing that she lost the baby in childbirth.

In May last year the Meltham man was jailed for 54 months for raping the victim.

But he continued to send her letters, despite an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order being imposed at Leeds Crown Court to protect her.

Kirklees magistrates were told that on February 9 last year the victim received a letter at her home from 32-year-old Brown.

This was postmarked from the Leeds area where Brown was on remand at the time.

Brown’s solicitor Ian Whiteley said: “On the other side of the envelope was a heart shape with the words ‘I love you’.

“There was a letter contained within that telling the victim he loves her and talking about life on the inside of prison.

“There was also a picture of a heart with the complainant’s name through the middle of it.”

Then on March 16 the victim received another letter from Brown through the post.

Mr Whiteley said: “Again she recognised the handwriting on the letter. It was addressed to ‘mummy’.

“Inside the envelope contained a handmade card which said ‘I love you mummy’.”

Magistrates were told that this referred to a child who was stillborn some years ago.

Mr Whiteley said his client admitted sending the letters, which also put him in breach of the SHPO, but he didn’t make any threats to the complainant.

Tayo Oguntade, prosecuting, described Brown’s breaches of his court order as persistent and serious. She said: “The breaches have caused serious harm or distress to the complainant.

“This is evidenced by his communication, especially in relation to the letter written about her child.

“She says how in fear she is and unable to get her life back on track as result of these matters.

“She is scared of him being released from prison.”

Brown, appearing via a prison video link from HMP Stafford, faces three charges of breaching a non-molestation order and two counts of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

He admitted breaching the SHPO but claims that the other matters have already been taken into account during his sentencing.

Magistrates sent the case to Leeds Crown Court for it to be dealt with by a judge on March 27.