UK "Early Bird Rapist" Christopher Clark given an additional 13 years

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Early Bird rapist is jailed 33 years after attack which left his 18-year-old victim 'like a broken vase' thanks to DNA cold case breakthrough just weeks before he was due to be freed from prison

A woman sexually assaulted more than 30 years ago by a brutal attacker known as 'the Early Bird rapist' has spoken of her relief as he was jailed for 13 years today.

Yolande Kennedy was just 18-years-old when she was raped at knife-point by twisted Christopher Clark who dragged her into a farmyard as she walked to work.

Clark had watched the teenager repeatedly over a number of days before the shocking early morning attack in 1985 in Grays, Essex.

Early Bird rapist jailed 33 years after attack just weeks before he was due to be freed from prison | Daily Mail Online

It's not entirely surprising that the police didn't believe Yolande at the time as policing attitudes to sexual assault were very different back then. It's a shame she had to wait for justice but at least it comes at a time when Clark was becoming eligible for parole.