Rapist who preyed on young girls is given second jail term

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A former Leamington man who has already served a prison sentence for raping a teenager has been jailed for 18 years for raping a woman and girls aged seven and 11.



Geoffrey Collett, who lived in Eden Court, Leamington, at the time, had pleaded not guilty at Warwick Crown Court to charges of rape and one of indecent assault.

But after almost six hours the jury unanimously found him guilty of all the charges.

Collett, 46, of Chester Street, Coventry, was also ordered to register as a sex offender for life.

Prosecutor Simon Phillips said that in October 2010 a young woman told police that Collett had raped her about ten years ago when she around 11. She said Collett, who knew her mum, had followed her upstairs at her home in Leamington while her mother was out and attacked her in her own bedroom.

The young woman told the court she kept quiet about it until 2009 when she confided in someone and later decided to go to the police.

By then Collett had served a 30-month sentence imposed in 2004 for raping an 18-year-old in her home after going to visit her with flowers shortly after she had given birth.

Police got in touch with those who had come into contact with Collett over the years, including a woman who in 2002 had made a complaint about an incident in the late 1980s. But at that time no action was taken after he had been interviewed and denied it.

In a victim statement read out in court after Collett had been convicted, one said that as a result of being raped by him at his home when she was about seven, she has had to seek counselling.

She said the offence had left her with “feelings of being dirty and tainted” which have affected her confidence around men and affected consensual sexual relationships.

Collett’s other young victim said it had robbed her of her childhood and left her feeling “ashamed and dirty.”

As a result of the police enquiries, an older woman also revealed she had been raped by Collett on more than one occasion in the 1990s.

But Collett claimed she had consented to sex, and expressed bemusement that she and his two other victims had made complaints against him. After the jury had returned its verdicts, Peter Freeman, defending, said Collett had lived “an unblemished life” since his release from his 2004 rape sentence.

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Serial Coventry rapist who attacked woman and young girls dies in jail



A Coventry rapist who attacked a woman and two young girls has died in a privately run jail. Geoffrey Collett had been serving an 18-year sentence at HMP Rye Hill in Warwickshire.

In October 2010, a young woman reported that Collett had raped her when she was around 11 years old. Collett followed the girl upstairs at her home in Leamington Spa, according to a Coventry Evening Telegraph report from 2011.

Collett went into her bedroom, Warwick Crown Court heard. He decided her bed was 'too small' so he raped her in a nearby bedroom and warned her not to tell anyone what had happened.

Nearly 10 years passed before the young woman spoke about the ordeal she had suffered. By the time the abuse was reported, Collett had already served a 30-month sentence for raping an 18-year-old girl when he visited her with flowers soon after the birth of her child.

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Another woman revealed that she had been raped by Collett on more than one occasion in the 1990s. But Collett claimed the sex had been consensual and expressed surprise that she had filed complaints against him, Warwick Crown Court heard.

Collett denied charges of rape and indecent assault but was found guilty by a jury at Warwick Crown Court. He was jailed for 18 years in 2011.

One of the victims said being raped by Collett had left her with 'feelings of being dirty and tainted.' His other young victim said it had robbed her of her childhood.

Collett, 60, died while serving his sentence at HMP Rye Hill near Rugby on December 3, 2025. His death is currently being investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.

A spokesman for HMP Rye Hill told CoventryLive: “Mr Geoffrey Collett passed away at an outside hospital on December 3, 2025. As with all deaths in custody, this will be investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman. His cause of death will be for the coroner to determine.”

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/serial-coventry-rapist-who-attacked-33200518

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Geoffrey Collett passed away at an outside hospital on December 3

So he didn't "die in jail" then?