Sex attacker, 39, smirks as he admits raping girl, 14, in an alleyway after ‘binding her wrists and covering her mouth with masking tape’
- Shane Nash, 39, from Nottingham, admitted stranger rape of 14-year-old girl
A sex attacker appeared to smirk in court today as he admitted the horrific stranger rape of a 14-year-old girl in an alleyway after he bound her wrists and covered her mouth with masking tape.
Rapist Shane Nash, 39, of Boniface Gardens, Bestwood, Nottingham, admitted one charge of rape and a second of attempted rape – on the same child – when he appeared before Judge Nirmal Shant KC, the Recorder of Nottingham.
Nash took the girl from an alleyway on to a grass area where he raped her and attempted to rape her in Top Valley on January 29.
Nash, wearing rosary beads, a pale blue top and grey jogging bottoms, spoke only to confirm his name and enter his guilty pleas at Nottingham Crown Court today.
The incident took place near the alleyway between Park Vale Academy and Rise Park Primary School, in Rise Park.
Nottinghamshire Police at Park Vale Academy in the Top Valley area of Nottingham
Nash took the girl from an alleyway on to a grass area where he raped her and attempted to rape her in Top Valley on January 29 (police pictured)
A sex attacker appeared to smirk at Nottingham Crown Court (pictured) today as he admitted the horrific stranger rape of a 14-year-old girl in an alleyway after he bound her wrists and covered her mouth with masking tape
The victim was bound by her wrists and had masking tape put on her mouth.
Mitigating, barrister Simon Eckersley said the defendant acknowledges inevitably there will be a prison sentence of some length – but first there needed to be a report to address the issue of dangerousness, and well as a victim impact statement.
Prosecutor Dawn Pritchard said interim registration now applies on the sex offenders’ register. A sentencing date was set for May 19 at 2pm, and Nash will remain in custody.
The judge told him in the dock he had pleaded guilty to very serious matters and the net result is likely to be a sentence of some length. But, she said, in addition to that a pre-sentence report needed to assess the question of dangerousness.
As Nash went to leave the dock, there was an outburst towards him in the dock from a man in the public gallery. The judge said she had every sympathy with those sitting in the public gallery, and ‘I understand it is difficult when a defendant behaves in the way he has’.
Miss Pritchard pledged to speak with the family, with the judge acknowledging she understood emotions were running high. The swift conclusion of the case comes after Nottinghamshire Live reported on the launch of a police investigation into the incident and subsequent arrest.
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