A Perth man who raped a 16-year-old girl on school grounds and left her ”inundated with fear” has been sentenced to six years behind bars.
Robin Gerald Dyers, 40, was sentenced today for what Judge Roger Macknay called a humiliating, calculated and predatory attack which ”rose purely out of the desire to sexually relieve” himself.
The teenager was jogging through the grounds of Leeming Senior High School in October 1999 on her way to visit a friend when she slowed down and began walking.
Dyers was sitting in his car at a local shopping centre car park, flicking through personal ads in a newspaper when he spotted the girl and, Judge Macknay said, couldn’t control himself.
He pursued the girl, grabbed her from behind, put his arm across her throat and said, ”Be quiet or I’ll slit your throat.”
The girl began to scream and struggle, pleading for her life when Dyers forced her face into the ground, removed her clothing and began to rape her.
”At one point during the offending you asked if she was a virgin. She said yes and you said if that was not true her throat would be slit,” Judge Macknay told the District Court.
Although Dyers claimed he could not remember making the threats, he pleaded guilty to charges of rape and attempted rape and said he was under the influence of amphetamines at the time of the offence.
The South African-born man was dealing with domestic problems at the time, and his sexual needs were not being met at home, Judge Macknay said.
In a statement to the court the victim wrote of the ”trauma she experienced and the fear and panic that inundated her life as a result” of the attack.
Judge Macknay said according to Dyers, he ”feels remorseful and deeply regretful for what you describe as a silly and foolish thing that you have done and extremely ashamed and disappointed in yourself”.
Although the judge accepted Dyers’ feelings of remorse were sincere, they were ”perhaps inevitably bound up with feelings of self interest”, and he doubted Dyers appreciated the seriousness of his offending.
”In that regard you state you do not belong in jail,” Judge Macknay said.
”Indeed the tenor of your letter (to the court) carries with it, I think, a lack of self appreciation of the seriousness of your offending.”
Dyers will be eligible for parole after four years.
AAP
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