Published: 2014 April 30 22:38:54 (11020 Views)

Bridegroom William Jordan, who raped a teenage girl on his wedding night while his pregnant wife slept in the next room has been jailed for 18 years.

Jordan carried out the sickening attack when he was 18 after tying the knot at Hammersmith town hall in west London.

The newlywed couple had spent the night celebrating at a friend's home with other friends and family.

He had snuck out of the bed he was sharing with his wife and raped a 14-year-old girl.

His victim was too terrified to tell anyone what had happened and blocked out the memory for years to come.

Jordan, who is now 59, has finally been brought to justice 41 years after the attack, which took place on April 20, 1973.

In 1977 Jordan began abusing another young girl when she came to babysit his two children once a month, the Old Bailey heard.

When he and his wife went to the pub Jordan would sneak away and rape the 11-year-old at his home before going back 'as though nothing had happened'.



The attacks carried on for the next two years.

The judge, Mr Recorder Oliver Sells, QC, branded Jordan a 'devious, predatory abuser' as he sentenced him to a total of 18 years imprisonment.

The judge said: 'On your wedding night after a ceremony at the town hall you and your new wife, who was heavily pregnant and only 16 years of age, retired for the night to the house of some friends.

'During that night, your wedding night, you went into the room of the child and raped her forcefully.

Judge Sells said, 'You enjoyed decades of undeserved freedom, status in your family and the power of an abuser.'

The court heard Jordon was convicted of another sexual offence in 1980.

Defence barrister Tim Starkey said he suffers from a number of health conditions including epilepsy.

Jordan, from Hammersmith, denied the charges, but was convicted by a jury of three counts of rape.

He will remain on the sex offenders register for life.



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