WHY WAS MY RAPIST ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTRY?
WOMAN BRUTALLY ATTACKED BY FOREIGN SEX FIEND
THE victim of a serial rapist has demanded to know why he was let into Britain from Romania.
Sharon Jones, 42, was subjected to a two- hour sexual attack by nightclub predator Vasile Nastase.
The monster had served time abroad for two almost identical rapes but had slipped into Britain unnoticed.
Despite being sentenced to a total of 16 years in prison in his home country, Nastase, 49, came in under police radar and was able to secure a factory job.
Brave Sharon has waived her anonymity in the Sunday People to highlight how easy it still is for dangerous convicted criminals to enter the country.
The mum-of-four said: “Why has this happened to me?
“We put our trust in the Government to protect us and they keep failing.
“I haven’t even had a letter from the
Home Office apologising and recognising they made a mistake by letting this man into the UK. They aren’t keeping women safe.”
Sharon’s case has grim similarities to that of schoolgirl
Alice Gross – murdered in a sexual attack in London by a Latvian builder who got into Britain despite being convicted in his home country of murdering his wife. Alice’s family were horrified at Sharon’s story.
Nastase met Sharon in a nightclub in Leigh, Lancs, two days before her 42nd birthday.
She was later walking home alone when he grabbed her in the street and forced her into the house where he lived.
Sharon said: “He managed to get me into his back room and pushed me on to a couch.
Pleading
“He grabbed my trousers and ripped them off. I was so terrified I urinated and he just smiled.
“He then raped me from behind. He worked his hands up my body and I thought he was going to strangle me.
“He was laughing and mumbling in his own language, smirking and grunting. He seemed to get pleasure from my terror. He had evil piercing blue eyes.
“I was having visions of my own funeral. But eventually it stopped.”
Sharon says she was sure the brute would have killed her if she hadn’t used her skills as a social worker to persuade him to let her go.
“I started thinking he was going to chop me up,” she said.
“I was pleading like I’ve never pleaded with anyone my whole life. He just pointed to the door and said ‘go.’”
Nastase was arrested but Sharon was horrified when he was released on bail to return to his home in Leigh, just 400 metres from her own. To further add to her torment she then saw him before his trial.
Sharon said: “The police didn’t tell me he had raped women before and how dangerous he really was. What’s worse is that I had to see him twice before he was even jailed. I saw him when I was driving to the library and I had to hide the car because I was terrified.
“Another time he was walking around the town centre and he looked straight at me. My heart froze.”
Sharon had no idea Nastase was a serial rapist until she found out from the probation report printed in a local paper.
Risk
It revealed he was sentenced to six years in prison in Romania in 1993 for beating and raping a woman and ten years in 2009 for a second rape.
Sharon said: “My daughter and me sat there in shock. We couldn’t believe it.” For months after the attack Sharon had nightmares and wondered if she would get HIV, the virus that can lead to Aids.
A judge at Bolton crown court jailed Nastase for a minimum of ten years in August, saying he posed a significant risk to others.
He was also given a restraining order banning him from ever contacting or attempting to contact Sharon and he was placed on the Violent and Sex Offender Register for life.
But Nastase hardly served any of his sentence.
Four days into it he killed himself by slashing his neck at Forest Bank prison in Salford. Sharon said: “My first thought was, ‘Is he still trying to have power over me so he will remain forever in my thoughts?’
“I am distraught that he won’t serve his term and I have to pick up the pieces of my life.
“I wanted to commit suicide when I was told he had done so.
“I was trying to find one shred of humanity about him because he was a monster. But since I’m his third victim I doubt he has any.”
Sharon’s horrifying account will shock critics who say her story raises new questions about the ease with which dangerous foreign criminals can slip into the UK.
Five years ago Latvian builder Arnis Zalkalns, 41, pounced on Alice Gross, 14, as she walked along the Grand Union canal near her home in Hanwell, West London.
Zalkalns had breezed into Britain in 2007 despite being released only two years earlier from a 12-year jail sentence for murdering his Latvian wife.
He hanged himself in a park and was discovered four days after Alice’s body was found.
Last night after we told Alice’s dad Jose, 65, about Sharon’s ordeal, he said: “I am dismayed that after everything we went through g with Alice’s inquest that this is still happe happening.
“It feels like lik it was all for nothing.
“I wanted lessons to be learned.”
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