{"id":9797,"date":"2017-11-14T14:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T19:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=9797"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T19:02:38","slug":"rose-wests-nephew-steven-letts-jailed-child-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/11\/14\/rose-wests-nephew-steven-letts-jailed-child-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose West’s nephew Steven Letts jailed for child rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nephew of serial killer Rose West has been jailed for raping a “highly vulnerable” 12-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

Steven Letts, 39, met the girl at Gloucester Quays while she was on a shopping trip with a support worker from the care home where she lived.<\/p>\n

A jury heard he took her back to his Barton Close flat, plied her with drugs and alcohol and then had sex with her.<\/p>\n

Letts was sentenced to eight years for rape and 10 years consecutively for another offence of aggravated burglary.<\/p>\n

He pleaded not guilty to abducting the girl and raping her, but was convicted of both charges at Gloucester Crown Court on 6 November.<\/p>\n

‘Compulsive liar’<\/h2>\n

The court heard Letts encouraged the girl to leave her support worker on 6 March after she had approached him in the street and asked him for a cigarette.<\/p>\n

She was found the following morning in Letts’s flat by police, who arrested him.<\/p>\n

Judge Jamie Tabor QC described him as “a very volatile man”, “a compulsive liar” and “a man steeped in the use of drugs”.<\/p>\n

He said he accepted the victim looked and sounded much older than 12 and the court had heard she willingly had intercourse with Letts.<\/p>\n

However a child under 13 cannot legally give consent and Judge Tabor said the victim was “highly vulnerable”.<\/p>\n

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Letts’s aunt was serial killer Rose West who was convicted of murdering 10 young girls and women.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jailing him, he described Letts as a “dangerous” offender “of particular concern” who should not be released until the parole board is satisfied he no longer poses a threat.<\/p>\n

Letts, who refused to attend court for sentencing, had an extra year added to his parole licence and must sign the sex offenders register.<\/p>\n

At a separate trial, jurors convicted him and another man of storming a couple’s house in Tredworth armed with a machete.<\/p>\n

Letts’s aunt was serial killer Rose West who was convicted of murdering 10 young girls and women whose remains were found at the house she shared with husband, Fred.<\/p>\n

He killed himself in prison in 1995 while awaiting trial on 12 murder charges.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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