INMATE RAMIJAH HINDES JAILED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE BEHIND BARS
A PRISONER who was serving a sentence for sexually assaulting a teenage girl as she walked home has been jailed again for raping an inmate in his cell.Ramijah Hindes told the inmate he was sharing a cell with at HMP Risley that he wanted him to ‘feel how his victims felt’ before telling him to take down his trousers and raping him.
Prosecuting at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, Simon Christie said that both Hindes and the victim had been moved to HMP Risley from another prison and were put into a ‘vulnerable prison wing’ due to the nature of the offences they had been jailed for committing.
The 23-year-old defendant, of no fixed abode, had vocalised to prison officers how unhappy he was to be put in a cell with that particular inmate.
“He did not think it was a good look to be put in a cell with the complainant because of what he was jailed for.” That same evening, it was heard how Hindes told the complainant to pull down his trousers and proceeded to rape him.
It was only when the defendant left the cell the next morning that the victim then told a prison officer that he had been raped.
Hindes was arrested and taken in for a police interview where he denied the allegations, however after forensic samples had been taken and there was evidence of cells from the defendant found on the victim, he changed his story to state that the pair had ‘consensual sex’ that evening.
Count two of rape on the indictment was set to go to trial after Hindes pleaded not guilty.
However, on the morning of the day the trial was set to go ahead, he changed his plea to guilty.
Three victim impact statements from the victim were read out to the court in which he stated how the effects and impact of the incident on him had been ‘immeasurable’."
