EAGLESCLIFFE GARDENER JAILED FOR RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
A gardener who raped and sexually attacked a woman has been put behind bars.Daniel Wyatt subjected his victim to a horrific ordeal after she repeatedly asked him to stop during sex which he ignored.
When he eventually did stop he told his victim she was "boring", Teesside Crown Court heard.
Following the sex attacks the 28-year-old then told the woman: "I'm sorry, that's not me." Wyatt, of Myrtle Road in Eaglescliffe, denied the offences but was convicted of rape and two counts of sexual assault by a jury on Tuesday, after standing trial.
He has previous convictions for battery and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, in addition to robbery - but he has never been to prison before.
Wyatt committed the earlier offences when he was under 18, and he was handed youth rehabilitation orders.
On Friday, he appeared in court on video link from Holme House Prison where he has been held on remand.
In mitigation, Erin Kitson-Parker told the court that when she spoke to Wyatt before the hearing, he told her: "I made the biggest mistake of my life." The court heard that Wyatt has worked all of his life, more recently as a horticulturalist for the council.
"He has found prison difficult," the defence barrister said, "he has a job there sewing and in waste and recycling.
He wants to come back out and start work again.
He will live with his parents." Judge Tom Mitchell told Wyatt: "When she told you to stop, you failed to do so.
You didn't stop and that makes you a rapist.
You sexually assaulted her twice.
It was a mean thing to do.
A very wrong thing to do.
You knew that straight away because you apologised for it." Wyatt was jailed for six-and-a-half-years.
He will be released after serving two-thirds of his sentence.
He will be subject to sex offender notification requirements - where he must let the police know if he is staying away from home or going on holiday - for the rest of his life.
A restraining order was put in place to prohibit Wyatt from ever contacting his victim again.
