Man charged over sex attacks
Published Date:
04 July 2008
A MAN was charged last night in connection with two sex attacks in Yorkshire, police said.
David Newton was charged with the rape, indecent assault and abduction of a 16-year-old girl and the kidnap and false imprisonment of her 11-year-old brother in Halton, Leeds, in 1997.
He was also charged with the attempted murder and attempted rape of a 52-year-old woman in 2006, West Yorkshire Police said. The two incidents were linked by DNA evidence.
In the first attack 11 years ago, the teenage girl was raped at knifepoint on parkland and her brother was forced to lie in bushes nearby.
Nine years later in the second attack, a dog walker on Ilkley Moor was knocked to the ground and punched in the face repeatedly until she lost consciousness.
When the woman came round, she was being strangled and lost consciousness again.
Newton was arrested in the Hayle area of Cornwall on Tuesday after police launched a nationwide manhunt for the 55-year-old, who comes from Knottingley, West Yorkshire.
He is due to appear before Bradford Magistrates' Court this morning.
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04 July 2008 8:11 AM
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