MAN JAILED FOR RAPE AND KILLING VAN PASSENGER IN CRASH
An Oxfordshire man raped a woman just months before he killed his van passenger in a crash.Now Jordan Wall will spend 12 years in prison.
In the early hours of September 2019, Wall is said to have entered a woman's house in Carterton before raping her.
Then on July 11, 2020, while he was under investigation for a rape, he was driving a Ford Transit van with Matthew Hammonds as a passenger when he was involved in a collision.
A number of calls were made to the police between 8pm and 9.45pm saying the van was driving erratically.
The van was seen to run a number of red lights.
Officers responding to reports of the white van arrived in The Leys carpark at around 9.40pm and stopped behind the vehicle.
Wall then drove his van at the police car, squeezing through a small gap, and making off on Station Lane.
Police following the vehicle and found it had stopped on Thorney Leys.
It had gone through a red light at crossroads at speed before crossing onto the opposite side of the carriageway and smashing through pedestrian railings before hitting a tree.
Matthew Hammonds, 25, of Carterton, was pronounced dead at the scene.
He had suffered a fatal head injury.
Wall fled on foot but was found nearby and arrested before being taken to hospital, where he failed a preliminary breath test and a preliminary drugs test, indicating positive results for both cannabis and cocaine.
Wall then refused to provide a sample of blood for analysis.
Following a seven-day trial Wall was been found guilty of one count of rape.
He had previously pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
The 25-year-old, of Hawthorn Road, Eynsham, has been jailed for 12 years after appearing before Oxford Crown Court.
He was also disqualified from driving for six years after he is released from prison and will have to sit an extended driving test before he can drive legally again.
