BOLTON RAPIST JAILED FOR BRUTAL ASSAULT AND IMPRISONMENT
A rapist assaulted and imprisoned a woman after a “chance meeting” at a petrol station, a court heard.Kieran Naylor, 40, met the woman, a mother-of-two, on Bridgeman Place in Bolton in the early hours of December 10 last year.
Manchester Crown Court heard how this started a horrific ordeal after he invited the woman back to the flat he was staying at on Bold Street in the town centre.
Prosecutor Steven Swift said: “He told her to remove her clothes and proceeded to rape her.” Naylor, who has 53 previous convictions for 100 offences, listened on in silence from the dock as Mr Swift told the court about how he then brutally beat her, kicking and stamping on her.
The case was heard at Manchester Crown Court.
He said: “She did ask the defendant to call an ambulance, and he laughed at that in return.” The woman, who has since died of natural causes, was trapped in Naylor’s flat for around 18 hours over the course of the day.
While she was trapped there, Naylor also stole the woman’s bank card and tried to use it to buy tracksuits at JD Sports in Bolton town centre.
At one point she was able to crawl to the front door and call for help, only for Naylor to come back.
Mr Swift said that Naylor demanded further sex from her and that when she refused he then dragged her onto the sofa and raped her again.
She was eventually able to crawl to the door while injured and called for help and members of the public were able to come to her aid.
Naylor denied his crimes but was convicted by a jury of two counts of rape, one count of false imprisonment and one count of grievous bodily harm.
He confessed to a count of theft for taking his victim’s bank card.
Naylor listened on in silence as the victim’s two daughters told the court about the devastating impact his crimes had wrought.
One of the daughters said: “After this happened, my mum’s confidence and sense of safety completely changed.
She became fearful of going out alone and trusting people was suddenly difficult.
The injuries she sustained had a massive impact on the rest of her life.
She struggled to walk properly, even with aid.
At times, she felt she would never recover and that took a huge toll on her mental health.
Before the attack, my mum was kind, strong, caring, loving, and bubbly.
She lit up every room she walked into.
Seeing her lose that spark was devastating.
Our grief is deepened by remembering the pain she was in.” Another daughter said that her mother had been left in excruciating physical pain and had been terrified about the prospect of having to see Naylor again in court and to have him see her.
She said that her injuries had even left her mother, a passionate chef, unable to cook her “beloved Christmas dinner”.
David Toal, defending, said nothing he said was intended to make things “more difficult for the family” but he pointed out that none of Naylor’s previous convictions were for sexual offences.
He said that Naylor had endured a traumatic upbringing and had struggled with alcohol and drug addictions, but that while in prison had worked on various courses.
Mr Toal said that this showed there was a very different side to the defendant.
Recorder Sophie Cartwright accepted these points but reminded the court of the devastating impact of Naylor’s actions after what she said started as a “chance meeting” at a petrol station.
She also reminded the court of the scale of the victim’s injuries and how at one point “you said to her that you intended to finish her off”.
Recorder Cartwright also noted how the woman’s daughters had spoken movingly of what Naylor had inflicted on their mother and their family.
Naylor showed no visible reaction as Recorder Cartwright jailed him for a total of 14 years, with an extended licence of two years, taking his sentence to 16 years.
She ordered he will serve at least two thirds of it in prison and made him subject to an indefinite notification order and indefinite restraining orders against the victim's two daughters.
Speaking after the hearing Detective Constable Lucy Birch, of Bolton CID, said: “This was a shocking and deeply disturbing crime.
Naylor is a dangerous individual who is rightly behind bars for a long time.
We know how difficult this has been for the victim and her family, and her bravery ensured justice was served.
It is saddening that she passed away before seeing Naylor sentenced, but her courage has helped protect other women from harm.
If anyone else has been affected by crimes of this nature, please come forward.
We will take your allegations seriously and treat you with dignity and respect.
