COUNCIL BINMAN EXPOSED AS 'MONSTER' RAPIST BY VICTIM WHOSE BINS HE WAS EMPTYING
Chelsea Jones was at home in Bucknall when she discovered her rapist Aidan Edwards was now working as a council binman.It was more than 10 years after Edwards had been sentenced for raping Chelsea - and 14 years since the harrowing sex attack on the 12-year-old schoolgirl in a Bentilee field.
Now Stoke-on-Trent City Council has "terminated the agency appointment" of Edwards after Chelsea complained.
She has now waived her right to anonymity after discovering Edwards emptying her bins.
Chelsea has spent the years since the attack trying to live a normal life - but she was left horrified after seeing Edwards collecting the bins outside her address.
The 25-year-old said: “I just froze.
I didn’t know what to do.
But then I voiced out and I was like, ‘What do you think you’re doing in this area?
You’re a rapist!’.
“I thought I can’t just run back home this time.
I had to say something.
I contacted Stoke-on- Trent City Council explaining the situation.
I let them know what he’d done and when he’d been sentenced.
They told me they were investigating it - and then I found out he’d been sacked later that morning.
“I can’t be silent no more because he just thinks he can walk around the area and I won’t say nothing.
Now I’ve just got to stand up from the rooftops and let the whole world know what he did and what a monster he is.” It appears Edwards had not declared his conviction to Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
A council spokesman said: “The resident filed a formal complaint to the council which has been investigated.
We can confirm the individual in question was provided to the council via an external agency.
The information we hold demonstrates the individual did not declare the conviction, despite being requested to do so – as is required.
We have terminated the agency appointment for this individual.
We take complaints of this nature extremely seriously, and we thank the resident for their bravery in speaking out.” Staffordshire Police have confirmed the conviction.
A police spokesman said: "A 27-year-old man, of Bentilee, was convicted of two counts of rape at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court in December 2015.
He was sentenced to a three-year detention in a youth offenders' institution on 23 February 2016.
As part of his sentencing, he was also placed on the Sex Offenders' Register indefinitely."
