Rapist who targeted drunk teenager jailed for six years (From Daily Echo)

Rapist who targeted drunk teenager jailed for six years

4:40pm Monday 6th February 2012 in News

HE targeted his teenage victim because she was drunk and so thought he could get away with subjecting her to a degrading and harrowing rape.

But today Sebastian Gryglewski is beginning a six year sentence after a jury unanimously convicted him of the crime.

They had heard how the construction worker had targeted his 18-year-old victim as she left a nightclub in Southampton.

He led her to a secluded area along a dark service road and there he raped her with her face pushed into bins that were overflowing with rubbish.

In sentencing him to prison Judge Peter Henry said: “You thought that she was easy game. I have no doubt that you thought because of her drunken state that she was vulnerable because she wasn’t able to physically resist you and if she did complain who was going to believe her.

“Young people are entitled to go out drinking and are entitled to wear short skirts if they wish to. That is no invitation whatsoever for you to do what you did.”

Jurors at Southampton Crown Court were shown security camera footage of the 18-year-old in a blue dress staggering along the pavement and into the road in Manchester Street that runs parallel to London Road before Gryglewski, 34, approached her from behind.

Gryglewski, of no fixed abode, always denied the charge, despite the overwhelming evidence and said in interview how he had found the girl crying and sat next to her.

He was told when he is released from prison he would likely face an immediate deportation order back to Poland.