Serial sex offender raped girl in park

Christian Grant, 19, attacked the schoolgirl on July 7 last year in Pearson Park, Hull, just four days after being released early from a young offenders' institute.

Grant had been released early on licence from the unit, where he had been locked up for threatening behaviour.

The teenager, who admitted the attack, has been sectioned indefinitely under the Mental Health Act and placed in a secure unit.

Prosecutor James Sampson told Hull Crown Court the young girl was "a vulnerable and immature child".

Grant, of Queen's Road, Hull, gave the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, amphetamines and vodka before they had sex. The court was told Grant threatened her, saying he would attack someone with a brick if she failed to have sex with him.

She told the police: "He said he wanted sex and I said 'no''. He said he would go and hurt someone. He was throwing bricks. I had to do it or it would have got worse."

Grant was caught exposing himself to 14-year-old girls in June 2007.

In April of the same year he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl in a park and in February last year he made threats to kill people.

At the time of the rape he was subject to licence conditions and was told not to contact children under 16 or visit parks or playgrounds in Hull or nearby Hessle. He was released from his prison sentence on July 3 after only serving 18 days of a 40-day sentence.

Sentencing Grant, Judge Thorn QC told him: "It is agreed you suffer from a psychotic disorder.

"You are a significant danger to the public."

Grant was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for life.