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A MAN WHO forced his way into a pensioner’s home in London and raped her has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Jason Batchelor (46) was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court today after pleading guilty to rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, actual bodily harm and trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence.
Batchelor received a total of 20 years for rape with a 12-year custodial sentence, with eight years to be served on licence upon release.
He received the same sentence for his other crimes. Each sentence is to run concurrently.
Shortly before 8am on Wednesday, 11 May, a woman in her 70s was in her kitchen preparing breakfast when Batchelor tapped on a window at the back of her house.
The Metropolitan Police said the woman indicated for him to leave her garden, which he did. However, he then walked around the property and knocked on the front door.
The woman opened her door slightly to ask him what he wanted, at which point he placed his foot in the doorway and forced his way in.
Upon gaining entry to the house, he punched the woman, causing extensive bruising to her face. Police said he went on to rape her and take cash from her before leaving the property.
‘Horrific ordeal’
The woman alerted emergency services and was admitted to hospital for her injuries.
An investigation was launched by detectives from the Met’s Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command.
Police said media appeals immediately after the incident identified important witnesses who provided evidence of assistance to the investigation team.
As a result of detailed forensic examinations, DNA evidence was obtained and found to be a match for Batchelor.
Detectives arrested him at his home address on Saturday, 14 May. Upon his arrest, Batchelor apologised and said he had “never done anything like this before”.
He was charged the following day.
Detective Inspector Keith Ward said:
This was a horrific ordeal for this elderly lady and her courage and bravery throughout this investigation has been humbling.
“Batchelor is a dangerous offender who committed offences against the woman in her own home, a place where she has every right to feel safe and secure.”
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Incredible in this day and age people still fall for the ‘African Prince with lotsa money but needs funds to release said money’ scam…come on folks….
maybe loneliness was a factor, this lady seems to have wanted it to real so much
It’s in the nature of the beast !!!
I know it’s tempting to laugh at others’ naïvety, but when you think about the outcome it’s little different to all those pensioners who get duped by fake bank employees, rogue property dealers and cowboy tradesmen. Another lonely, emotionally vulnerable person has been left in financial ruin while some keyboard-savvy lowlife is laughing as he wallows in his loot.
Some very clever scammers out there.
A friend of mine met an American woman online who spun a terrific yarn about wanting to come to Ireland to study Irish folklore. Really convincing. Communicated with her for ages, she was tying up loose ends and moving lock, stock and barrel to Dublin where she was enrolled in UCD.
Three times I had to stop him from forwarding money to her, we almost fell out over this fictitious person.
My argument:
‘If as you say she ‘Truly loves you’ then she will find a way to make it here’
Eventually the penny dropped when she contacted him from Amsterdam airport asking him to forward a few thousand euros to facilitate her claim that she was financially self sufficient entering the EU.
She is a fool & a gold digger – No sympathy 4 her at all. HA HA HA.
Iv a friend feel for someone living here with friends .. Went home to visit and have medical checks eat as cheaper at home ! She said she had cancer ! .. Needed thousands for treatment .. We convinced him eventually .. Turned out one of her friends was her husband !
Wha?????
Loneliness leaves people very vulnerable
Yeah so does ger wish 4 a ‘luxury’ life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3887493.stm getting revenge on the scammers
That’s brilliant Peter!
A real pity,but hard to believe ppl fall for this carry on now a days!
People over 60 wouldn’t be as Internet savy as younger people add loneliness to that and you have the perfect victim.
Why does this seem to happen a bit more in the UK. My working theory is that British women are a bit more soppy romantics compared to savvy sceptical and can’t take a complement Irish women.
i know some irish women who’d bite the head off you for complementing them
Fred it happens here too. The victims keep it quiet. wouldn’t you?
I do NOT look lovely today!!!!!
haha thats it Deborah on the button!
Mark Hamilton…better known as Luke Skywalkerton
Poor silly woman
Literally!
It’s the lowest of the low.Preying on that poor woman’s emotions.
I’ve got 20 million resting in my account but I need 50 grand to release it, can anyone help me? I’m also a prince, good looking and single…
I hope that isn’t her profile picture on the dating site.
Yes, I see the Met Police caption perfectly clear now.
A prominent Irish businessman, highly experienced, was defrauded or scammed of almost 750k sterling to get the ex Emperor of Angola’s uncut diamonds worth 400 million sterling from a Safe Deposit box in Amsterdam.
People can be conned by greed, by pretend romance , by the need or want to help and due to vulnerabilities.
These romance scams are supposedly very prevalent but rarely surface due to acute embarrassment.
Who was that Michael?
‘£4 million in gold deposits in Ghana he was trying to have released from the bank. He claimed that after he had recovered his wealth from the bank he would come to Foster and they would spend their retirement together in luxury. He just needed some additional funds in order to complete the deal.’
With collateral like that I could afford to live in Dublin.
just about
It has become a major industry in Ghana and Nigeria High quality internet access in Ghana to facilitate the scammers
Sort of revenge for all the bad colonial experience
No fool like an old fool,
As they say… there’s one born every minute…
….and two to take ‘em.
Hard to feel sorry for her even after being arrested for money laundering and this chap even had her allow other women to use her account to send him money, how would they have fitted into their supposed future together?? Flipping hell after being arrested and giving her story to police she was obviously informed of that this was a clearly a scammer preying on her and these other women yet she continued to send her savings and even go into debt for him. Nah, there’s desperate, gullible and lonely and there’s this, being arrested and landing in a world of legal trouble yet continues to just give away her savings to a charming stranger in Africa of all places. Plain stupidity.
One born every minute..
wow some people are so stupid
Stupid is as stupid does….
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