Kidderminster kidnapper jailed
A drunken man who carried out a terrifying night attack by stripping a woman office worker on a supermarket car park in Kidderminster has been jailed for four years.
Paul Jennings admitted kidnapping the 24-year-old as she walked to meet friends in the early hours, but Judge Alistair McCreath said he had no doubt that rape was intended.
He ruled that Jennings, aged 25, of Comberton Park Road, Kidderminster was a dangerous offender and should not be released until it was judged safe to do so.
He has to register as a sex offender for life.
Mr Jonas Hankin, prosecuting at Worcester Crown Court, told of how the female victim had left the town's M2 nightclub on August 25 last year to visit a friend's flat and arranged to meet other friends back at the club.
She was walking back at 3am and had used her mobile to say she was on her way.
After going through the subway near Morrisons, she was attacked from behind but managed to operate the call button on her phone.
When she came round she had been dragged on to the car park and stripped of most of her clothes, the court heard.
The judge believed the woman would have been terrified and the effects of her ordeal would last forever.
