RAPIST ASKS FOR LONG SENTENCE
A 47-year-old man who repeatedly raped a young girl, was last night starting an 11-year jail sentence, after the defendant himself asked for the maximum sentence he could get.Christopher Olive of the Lizard, Wymondham, admitted 10 offences of rape of the girl, who he first raped when she was 14.
Olive was also placed on the sex offenders' register for life and banned from ever working with children.
On another occasion, he had raped the girl on her 16th birthday, telling her it was the best birthday present she would ever get.
The girl eventually came forward to make a complaint and Olive was arrested.
The defendant, who sat with his head bowed in the dock, asked that he receive the maximum sentence for what he had done.
His barrister Michael Clare stated that Olive was so ashamed of his behaviour that his instructions were not to mitigate on his behalf and that he deserved the maximum sentence.
Judge Paul Downes remarked that Olive's plea of guilty spared the girl the ordeal of going to court but that was the only mitigation in his favour.
After the hearing, Det Con David Aldridge praised the girl's strength in reporting the abuse and urged others in similar situations to come forward.
