Two cousins jailed after they took turns to rape teen

TWO cousins who took turns raping a teenager as she begged them to stop have been jailed for nine years each.

Gary Fenton, 38, from Barry, and Bryan George, 48, marched the vulnerable girl to Fenton’s bedsit and forced themselves on her despite her pleas, a court heard.

The men raped the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, 16 years ago in Fenton’s flat in North Yorkshire in 2001.

They took her under each arm, took her into Fenton’s bedroom, isolated her and repeatedly raped her, prosecutor Shaun Dodds said.

The men carried on having unprotected sex with her despite her saying “no”, “stop” and “please don’t” over and over again, Teesside Crown Court heard.

The victim said she was frightened for her life as she was laid down. Fenton told her “it’ll be all right” and shushed her, the court heard.

“It felt like a lifetime,” she said in her evidence during the trial.

Judge Peter Armstrong told the defendants: “Despite her protestations, you had your way with her on more than one occasion.”

He said they degraded and humiliated the girl in a sustained attack.

Now an adult, the young woman said: “I was just scared. I wanted to go home. I felt dirty. I felt sick.”

She said she ran after the sex attackers left the room, did not tell anyone about her ordeal for years, before reporting it to the police last year.

George, of Church Street in Redcar, at first lied to police, saying there had been no sexual encounter.

Both men had denied rape, but unanimous guilty verdicts were returned on Wednesday at Teesside Crown Court.

“The two of you have stood trial and both claimed that the sexual activity was with consent. The jury saw through that and have convicted you,” Judge Armstrong said.

Fenton, of Maes-yr-Ysgol in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, and George were given restraining orders banning them from contacting the victim and will be on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

Fenton had a history of violence against women.

He was jailed for five-and-a-half years in 2010 for wounding with intent after he hit his then-partner in the face with a glass.

He is already serving a four-year sentence imposed in Cardiff for a string of serious assaults where he punched, kicked and stamped on a woman, causing a punctured lung and fractured ribs.

In a victim impact statement, the woman spoke bravely about the longlasting effects the ordeal has had on her.

She said: “I’m a totally different person now to what I was before I was raped.

“It’s affected every situation in my life.”

She said she had been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety and felt unable to work or cope with daily life.

“I have no feelings of happiness and joy,” she added.

“I feel nothing. I’m an empty shell. Every day brings more misery and feels like my last day on earth.

“I feel disgusting. I hate myself and I hate life.”