Depraved’ man pretended to be a taxi driver to trap and rape womanhttps://metro.co.uk/2018/05/27/depraved ... n-7582414/A 67-year-old man who pretended to be a taxi driver to lure a woman into his car before raping her twice has been jailed.
Keith Gillings, of Hanway Road, was sentenced to life imprisonment for rape at Harrow Crown Court in London, with a minimum to serve at least nine years before he can apply for parole.
Detective Sergeant Trevor Struthes, from the Met’s Child Abuse and Sexual Offences unit, said: ‘Officers carried out a thorough and in-depth investigation which brought a violent and depraved man to justice.
‘They worked tirelessly to support the victim through this ordeal and got her the best possible result when they arrested and charged Gillings.
‘He will be spending nearly the remainder of his life behind bars, where he will not be able to attack and harm any other women again.’
The court heard the victim, a 47-year-old woman was drinking with friends in Hammersmith before she left a pub and got into a vehicle she believed was a taxi, around 11pm on 25 July.
Gillings took the victim to her home address where she collected money and requested the driver to take her to a local shop to get some tobacco.
She later realised that Gillings was not going in the right direction, and when she questioned the driver he claimed that he knew a different shop that would still be open.
As the car approached traffic lights, Gillings slowed down and the woman tried to get out of the vehicle which was locked.
He grabbed her wrists to stop her from getting out.
They then went to a block of flats where Gillings dragged the victim into a flat on the second floor and raped her, twice.
After the attack the victim managed to escape from the flat and run away.
Gillings tried to chase her but didn’t manage to catch up with her.
Gillings was arrested in August and charged on 4 August, last year, with two counts of rape.
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