Man who tried to rape teenage girl blamed her rescuers for attack

[dutchman]

He had plied his victim with cocaine and alcohol after meeting her in Coventry



A man who tried to rape a 14-year-old girl in a multi-storey car park after plying her with cocaine and alcohol was foiled when the occupants of a car went to her rescue.

Curtis Pike made off from the scene and later tried to blame the girl’s rescuers, who he said had beaten him up, for the attack on her – and pleaded not guilty to attempting to rape her.

But when he appeared at Warwick Crown Court for a pre-trial hearing, he changed his plea to guilty and also admitted possessing cocaine.

Pike, 24, of Sadler Road, Radford, was jailed for seven years and two months after being given credit for his pleas, and was ordered to register as a sex offender for life.

Jailing Pike, Judge Andrew Lockhart QC told him: “You were a man of 23 years of age, and she is 14.

“She was a damaged individual before you came across her, and you exploited that vulnerability on that afternoon and behaved towards her in a way which has exacerbated her difficulties.”