'Porridge' for Rape Window Cleaners

Judge called Michael Aberrici's violent actions abhorrent. A window cleaner was jailed for seven years today (Thursday) for the violent rape of a woman while her daughter slept upstairs. The victim said Michael Alberrici searched her home in Sandy before raping her and giving her love bites to mark her as his territory, Luton Crown Court was told. Giving evidence, the woman said when she opened the door at 10pm the 38-year-old window cleaner pushed his way in and started searching the house. Mr Albericci, of Hitchin, denied raping the woman in July last year. He said what happened was consensual. But Mr Misner said: "The crown say this was rape. He was marking his territory with the love bites to her chest and the bruising to the back. He showed contempt, scorn and disdain for the woman. "Jailing him, Judge Richard Foster said the rape of the woman and the violence used on her was "abhorrent."

'Lenient' rape sentences doubled for Simon Foster (L) and Keith Fenn (R) above. They were both jailed in 2007. Two men convicted of raping girls have had their "unduly lenient" two-year prison sentences doubled by the Court of Appeal. Devon chef Simon Foster, 26, raped a 12-year-old girl, and Oxford window cleaner Keith Fenn, 25, raped a 10-year-old girl. Attorney General Baroness Scotland argued in court their original terms should not be allowed to stand. In both cases, defence lawyers said the men thought the girls were older and they did not have to force them to have sex. Director of the Victims of Crimes Trust, Norman Brennan condemned the new sentences. "The original sentence was disgraceful, the new sentence is woeful," he said "I believe the sentence should have been in double figures. "Baroness Scotland, the government's most senior law officer, said "Sentences in cases such as this need to punish offenders for the harm they cause, protect children and act as a deterrent to others. "Baroness Scotland told the judges her concern was that in both cases "too great a discount has been afforded to the offenders by the judges who sentenced them, for the ostensible consent of the victim and the offenders' belief as to the victim's age".