COPYCAT RAPIST FOUND GUILTY
A jury at Chichester Crown Court yesterday convicted fisherman John Anslow, 42, of Glen Crescent, Selsey, of raping the 15-year-old girl during a seaside camping trip.The jury heard during the ten-day trial that Anslow had taken four 15-year-olds, three boys and a girl, on the trip to the West Sands Caravan Site, Selsey, in September last year.
After plying the boys with vodka, cider, lager and absinthe he led the girl away from the camp at knifepoint to a nearby field, indecently assaulted her and then raped her.
After the attack he demanded she give him 'one good reason' why he should let her live and told her to act normally or he would kill her, she told the court.
Anslow claimed the girl had made up the allegations because he had spurned her advances.
But Gillian Etherton, prosecuting, called to the witness stand a 14-year-old girl who had been raped at knifepoint by Anslow in 1996.
His latest victim was also made to relive her attack in horrifying detail.
Anslow showed no emotion as he was convicted by unanimous verdicts of rape and indecent assault.
The jury was discharged from coming to verdicts on a second charge of indecent assault and charges of possession of an offensive weapon and threatening to kill the girl.
He is due to be sentenced on June 25.
