Jail for Chalk Farm rapist who posed as a Good Samaritan
SATURDAY AUGUST 13, 2011
BY DAVID ST GEORGE at the OLD BAILEY
A RAPIST who posed as a good samaritan has begun a seven year jail sentence - a decade after his attack.
A 19 year old office worker was hopelesssly drunk and being harassed by a gang of youths outside the Man in the Moon pub in Chalk Farm Road when David Bromwich pulled up in his car late at night and offered to help her, the Old Bailey was told.
Bromwich had the appearance and air of a police officer and the trusting girl got into his vehicle, said Toyin Salako, prosecuting.
The girl was driven to a car park off York Way and raped before being driven later back in the street Camden Town on 8 August 2001.
"To this day she has no recollection of what happened to her," Judge Sasha Wass, QC, revealed when she jailed contruction manager Bromwich.
His DNA led jurors to convict him of rape. Bromwich, now 47, of Mulkern Road, Upper Holloway, maintained he had sex with consent.
The court heard that when the victim was found abandoned she made a 999 call. Police realised something had happened to her but she could not remember much because of her drunkenness. Tests proved she had been raped but the case remained unsolved until Bromwich was quizzed recently about a routine matter and provided a DNA sample.
Scientists found it matched the girl's and he was charged with rape. Jurors convicted him after a retirement of nearly seven hours. He suggested that because, at the time, he was in the habit of picking up prostitutes "for casual sex" he believed the girl was on the game.
Bromwich had the appearance and air of a police officer and the trusting girl got into his vehicle, said Toyin Salako, prosecuting.
The girl was driven to a car park off York Way and raped before being driven later back in the street Camden Town on 8 August 2001.
"To this day she has no recollection of what happened to her," Judge Sasha Wass, QC, revealed when she jailed contruction manager Bromwich.
His DNA led jurors to convict him of rape. Bromwich, now 47, of Mulkern Road, Upper Holloway, maintained he had sex with consent.
The court heard that when the victim was found abandoned she made a 999 call. Police realised something had happened to her but she could not remember much because of her drunkenness. Tests proved she had been raped but the case remained unsolved until Bromwich was quizzed recently about a routine matter and provided a DNA sample.
Scientists found it matched the girl's and he was charged with rape. Jurors convicted him after a retirement of nearly seven hours. He suggested that because, at the time, he was in the habit of picking up prostitutes "for casual sex" he believed the girl was on the game.
Nicholas Wayne, defending, said:"This conviction will have a catastrophic effect on him, his family and his future."
Judge Wass said the victim was alone, incapable and vunerable when Bromwich approached her late at night after "deliberately targeting her."
The case demonstrated the importance of keeping samples on a database to catch attackers and bring them to justice even years after their crimes, Judge Wass added.