Nuneaton man jailed for historical sex offences against young girls

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Chad Roper attacked his victims on a canal towpath in Nuneaton



A man who raped a teenage girl and tried to rape another in Nuneaton has been jailed for more than a decade.

Chad Roper proved he has a “worrying and dangerous lack of understanding about sexual boundaries” when he attacked the girls - the youngest was just 13 years old.

The first attack happened in 2008 when Roper, 23, of Princes Avenue, Nuneaton, approached a 13-year-old girl as she chatted with friends near to the Jubilee Sports Centre, in Greenmoor Road.

He denied charges of rape, attempted rape and sexual assault against the two girls - as well as sexual activity with a third - but was found unanimously guilty following a week-long trial earlier this year.

Roper was sentenced at Warwick Crown Court on Friday to 12 years behind bars with an extension of five years on licence whenever he is released from prison.

He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

Prosecutor Matthew Lowe had told the jury back in April: “The case against this defendant is that he is a young man with a worrying and dangerous lack of understanding about sexual boundaries.

“That has demonstrated itself over a number of years in relation to three separate young women, with him taking advantage not only of their youth, but their state of intoxication.”