A Jamaican illegal
immigrant in the United Kingdom (UK) has been found guilty of brutally raping a
woman twice after escaping from holding cells at Heathrow
Airport in London.
Augustine Gaynor, 32, was trying to enter Britain on a false passport when he was held by immigration officers and detained by the UK Border Agency in a secure holding area at Terminal 3.
A London court later heard that after his escape from the high-security area in August 2007, Gaynor committed a series of violent crimes against a fellow Jamaican woman while he was on the run, including raping her twice and hitting her with a sock stuffed with bullets.
The presiding judge has ordered a report into the circumstances surrounding the escape.
The court also heard that Gaynor had been deported from Britain in June 2006.
However, he re-entered the country in August 2007 using a Jamaican passport in a false name, claiming that he was in transit to Hong Kong.
He was held, fingerprinted and his true identity discovered.
Gaynor however, managed to escape and over the next 14 months preyed on the woman raping her, and beating her on numerous occasions.
He was finally arrested on January 15, 2009.
Last week, he was convicted of two counts of rape, two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm, making threats to kill, two counts of unlawful wounding and one of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
He was found not guilty of a further eight counts of rape.
Gaynor was remanded and is to be sentenced on September 4.
Augustine Gaynor, 32, was trying to enter Britain on a false passport when he was held by immigration officers and detained by the UK Border Agency in a secure holding area at Terminal 3.
A London court later heard that after his escape from the high-security area in August 2007, Gaynor committed a series of violent crimes against a fellow Jamaican woman while he was on the run, including raping her twice and hitting her with a sock stuffed with bullets.
The presiding judge has ordered a report into the circumstances surrounding the escape.
The court also heard that Gaynor had been deported from Britain in June 2006.
However, he re-entered the country in August 2007 using a Jamaican passport in a false name, claiming that he was in transit to Hong Kong.
He was held, fingerprinted and his true identity discovered.
Gaynor however, managed to escape and over the next 14 months preyed on the woman raping her, and beating her on numerous occasions.
He was finally arrested on January 15, 2009.
Last week, he was convicted of two counts of rape, two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm, making threats to kill, two counts of unlawful wounding and one of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
He was found not guilty of a further eight counts of rape.
Gaynor was remanded and is to be sentenced on September 4.
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