Eight Life Terms For Serial Rapist
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Eight Life Terms For Serial Rapist
A "sadistic" serial rapist who was caught after the launch of the
biggest
manhunt since the Yorkshire Ripper has been given eight life sentences.
Father-of-four Clive Barwell, from Wortley, Leeds, showed no emotion as
the
sentence was passed by Mr Justice Penry-Davey at Teesside Crown Court.
Some
of his victims, who were in the public gallery to see him sentenced,
broke
down as he was led away.
The 42-year-old former lorry driver, wearing a T-shirt and track suit
bottoms, pleaded guilty yesterday to three rapes, one attempted murder,
four kidnappings, one serious sexual assault, one indecent assault and
one
assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The offences took place between 1982 and 1995 in Leeds, Bradford and
Nottingham.
In 1997, the largest manhunt since the search for the Yorkshire Ripper
was
launched to catch Barwell. A total of 77 officers from several police
forces were involved in the hunt.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Penry-Davey recommended that parole was not
considered for Barwell until he has served at least eleven and a half
years.
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The following appears courtesy of the 10/5/99 online edition of The
Times of
London newspaper:
October 5 1999
Lorry driver admits 14-year reign of terror that included kidnap and
attempted
murder
Car park rapist faces life in prison
BY PAUL WILKINSON
A SERIAL rapist who unleashed a 14-year reign of terror was facing life
in
prison today after admitting a string of abductions and assaults going
back to
1982 and the attempted murder one of his victims.
Clive Barwell, 42, a father of four, would lie in wait for the women as
they
returned to their vehicles in city centre multistorey car parks. He
would bind
them - and in one case he glued shut the eyes of his terrified hostage -
before
driving them off in their vehicles to a remote location to rape them.
In January 1983 he left a 26-year-old mother to die in a near-freezing
canal in
Leeds. With her head shrouded in a cloth bag, she survived only by
standing on
her tip-toes on debris on the canal bottom until her cries for help were
heard.
She later appeared anonymously on BBC television's Crimewatch where she
described how he had stood over her watching as she struggled in the
water.
She said: "Not a day goes by without me thinking of it. In winter I
remember
about it most, especially when it gets dark so early and I have to go to
my car
alone."
Detectives from across the country are expected to interview Barwell in
connection with other unsolved crimes against women in their areas. Top
of the
list will be the death of Shani Warren, 26, the secretary whose body was
found
gagged and with her arms and legs bound loosely with rope and battery
leads in
a lake near Taplow in Buckinghamshire at Easter 1987.
She had vanished from her home in Stoke Poges as she took a sackful of
lawn
clippings to the tip. At first her death in 18in of water was regarded
as a
suicide but detectives subsequently noticed the similarity to the
attacks
carried out by Barwell.
Yesterday at Teesside Crown Court, Barwell, a lorry driver from Leeds,
admitted
kidnaps and rapes in Bradford in December 1982 and Leeds in January 1983
and
the attempted murder of the Leeds mother. He had also previously
admitted
kidnapping and raping a woman, aged 23, at knifepoint in Nottingham in
1993,
when he was on day release from an open prison at the end of a jail
sentence
for the armed robbery of a post office. He also previously admitted
kidnapping
and indecently assaulting a 22-year-old woman in Leeds in 1995.
Charges of kidnapping and raping a 20-year-old woman in Leicester in May
1984
and attempting to kidnap a woman in Leeds in January 1993 were left on
the
file.
Paul Worsley, QC, for the prosecution, told Mr Justice Penry-Davey that
they
believed that they had enough evidence successfully to prosecute charges
but,
in the light of the admissions on the other offences, they had
"hesitated long
and hard" before putting the victims through the ordeal of a court
hearing.
They had spoken to the victims and they had agreed to let the cases lie
on the
file. However, the women had asked for the opportunity to be in court
when
Barwell is sentenced.
The court was offered no evidence on a further charge of Barwell
attacking a
woman in a Doncaster car park in 1985, and a formal not guilty verdict
was
recorded.
Barwell had apparently got away with his crimes until improvements in
DNA
profiling of sex attackers in the late 1990s. In 1997 police noticed a
similarity between a series of offences in Yorkshire and the East
Midlands, and
West Yorkshire's Assistant Chief Constable, Lloyd Clarke, set up a joint
inquiry team of 60 officers drawn from his force and those of
Nottinghamshire
and Leicestershire where the other assaults had occurred.
Mr Clarke said at the time: "We are dealing with someone who is cool and
sadistic. Those women he has attacked cannot forget what happened and
nor will
we. We owe it to them and all women to catch him. This man is a danger
to
women."
The inquiry was code-named Operation Lynx. But it was not until nine
months
later that evidence from the scene of one of the attacks was linked to
Barwell.
DNA tests linked him to samples taken from the most recent attacks and
further
forensic tests eventually connected him to the earlier ones. Barwell
will
return to court today when Mr Worsley will outline the prosecution's
case and
he will be sentenced.
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The following two news articles both appear courtesy of the 10/5/99
online
edition of The British Broadcasting Corporation news wire:
Tuesday, October 5, 1999
Serial rapist to be sentenced
Barwell superglued shut the eyes of one of his victims
A lorry driver is due to be sentenced for a series of brutal rapes and
kidnappings.
Clive Barwell has admitted three rapes, one attempted murder, four
kidnappings,
one serious sexual assault, one indecent assault and one assault
occasioning
actual bodily harm.
The offences related to attacks on four women over a 13-year-period.
Barwell was arrested after DNA testing proved that the four attacks in
Leeds,
Bradford and Nottingham were linked, and police launched a huge manhunt
called
Operation Lynx.
It was the biggest police manhunt since the search for the Yorkshire
Ripper.
Barwell will be sentenced at Teesside Crown Court.
Lone women
Barwell, 42, of Clyde Chase, Wortley, Leeds, was arrested nine months
after one
of his victims spoke on BBC TV's Crimewatch about her ordeal.
The father-of-four targeted lone women parking their cars in city
centres,
abducting them at knife-point, driving them away in their own cars and
then
raping or sexually assaulting them.
He first struck in December 1982 when he abducted and raped a
30-year-old woman
in Bradford.
A month later he attacked a 26-year-old as she parked at Leeds General
Infirmary.
After driving off and raping her, he put a bag over her head, bound her
hands
and feet and threw her in a canal.
Ten year gap
He then watched from the bank as the woman struggled to free herself and
climbed out of the water to get help.
There was then a 10-year gap before Barwell's next admitted attack, at
Nottingham's Broadmarsh Centre car park in May 1993.
He drove his 23-year-old victim away and raped her, before stealing her
cash
card and leaving her in the boot while he withdrew £200 from a cash
machine.
The woman was then returned to Nottingham and released.
Barwell committed his final attack in July 1995 when he abducted a
22-year-old
as she returned to her car in a multi-storey car park in Leeds.
He then superglued her eyes together before sexually assaulting her.
Further investigations
Operation Lynx brought together 60 officers from the West Yorkshire,
Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire forces.
They were also investigating a kidnapping and rape in Leicester in 1984
and an
attempted kidnapping in Leeds in 1993.
Judge Mr Justice Penry-Davey at Teesside Crown Court ordered that those
three
charges lie on file.
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Tuesday, October 5, 1999 Published at 14:40 GMT 15:40 UK
Serial rapist gets eight life terms
Barwell: Biggest manhunt since Yorkshire Ripper
Serial rapist Clive Barwell has been sentenced to eight life sentences.
Barwell, 42, from Leeds, was arrested in the biggest manhunt since the
search
for the Yorkshire Ripper.
He admitted three rapes, one attempted murder, four kidnappings, one
serious
sexual assault and one assault causing actual bodily harm.
Judge Mr Justice Penry-Davey said Barwell was a "dangerous, cunning and
chilling" rapist.
He deliberately tried to fool the police by speaking to his victims in a
false
Scottish accent and spoke of smoking and drinking, although he did
neither.
Mr Penry-Davey told Barwell that he would remain a serious danger to
women for
many years and said parole would not be considered until he had served
at least
11-and-a-half years.
Father-of-four Barwell, of Wortley, Leeds, showed no emotion as he was
sentenced, watched in court by some of his victims at Teesside Crown
Court.
The lorry driver's offences spanned a 13-year period, starting in
December 1982
when he abducted and raped a 30-year-old woman in Bradford.
Glued victim's eyes
A month later he attacked a 26-year-old as she parked at Leeds General
Infirmary.
After raping her, he put a bag over her head, bound her hands and feet
and
threw her in a canal.
He then watched from the bank as the woman struggled to free herself and
climbed out of the water to get help.
There was then a 10-year gap before Barwell's next admitted attack, at
Nottingham's Broadmarsh Centre car park in May 1993.
He drove his 23-year-old victim away and raped her, before stealing her
cash
card and leaving her in the boot while he withdrew £200 from a cash
machine.
The woman was then returned to Nottingham and released.
Barwell committed his final attack in July 1995 when he abducted a
22-year-old
as she returned to her car in a multi-storey car park in Leeds.
He then glued her eyes together before sexually assaulting her.
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The following appears courtesy of the 10/5/99 online edition of The
Associated Newspapers(UK) This Is London News Service:
Serial rapist given eight life terms
10/5/99, Associated Newspapers
A "sadistic" serial rapist who was caught after the launch of the
biggest
manhunt since the Yorkshire Ripper was given eight life sentences today.
Father of four Clive Barwell, showed no emotion as the sentence was
passed by
Mr Justice Penry-Davey at Teesside Crown Court.
Some of Barwell's victims, who were the public gallery to see him
sentenced,
broke down as he was led away.
The 42-year-old former lorry driver, wearing a T-shirt and track suit
bottoms,
pleaded guilty yesterday to three rapes, one attempted murder, four
kidnappings, one serious sexual assault, one indecent assault and one
assault
occasioning actual bodily harm.
The offences took place between 1982 and 1995 in Leeds, Bradford and
Nottingham.
In 1997 the largest manhunt since the search for the Yorkshire Ripper
was
launched to catch Barwell. A total of 77 officers from several police
forces
were involved in the hunt.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Penry-Davey recommended that parole was not
considered for Barwell until he has served at least eleven and a half
years.
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The following appears courtesy of the 10/5/99 online edition of The
Times of
London newspaper:
October 6 1999
Three victims see rapist jailed
BY PAUL WILKINSON, NORTH EAST CORRESPONDENT
THREE victims of a serial rapist went to court yesterday to see their
attacker
receive eight life sentences for his assaults.
A fourth victim, a 22-year-old university student at the time of the
attack
three years ago, is still too traumatised by the incident to venture out
of her
home.
As Mr Justice Penry-Davey passed sentence on Clive Barwell for his
14-year
reign of terror, he said he hoped witnessing the event went some way to
helping
the women to come to terms with their ordeals.
"No man can start to imagine the effects of attacks like these on the
victims.
I want to commend each of them for their courage and presence of mind in
dealing with the attacks. I can only hope that today's events will
assist their
return to normal life," he said.
Barwell, 42, a thrice-married father of four, received life sentences
for four
kidnappings, three rapes and the attempted murder of one of his victims
between
1982 and 1995.
Describing him as a serious danger to women, the judge said the
sentences would
be of indeterminate length. Parole should not be considered before he
had
served 11½ years.
Paul Worsley, QC, for the prosecution, at Teesside Crown Court, said
that each
of the victims had suffered trauma long after the attacks were carried
out in
Yorkshire and the Midlands.
He described Barwell, from Leeds, as a "cunning and calculating man".
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The following appears courtesy of the 10/6/99 online edition of The
London
Daily Telegraph newspaper:
Wednesday 6 October 1999
Serial rapist given 8 life sentences
THREE women were in court yesterday to see a man who raped them receive
eight
life sentences.
A fourth was too badly affected to attend Teesside Crown Court, four
years
after she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted.
Clive Barwell, 42, a lorry driver, pleaded guilty to kidnap and rape,
attempted
murder, assault and serious sexual assault.