Rapist hunted by police as victim urges attacker to hand himself in
An on-the-run rapist has been urged to hand himself in by the woman he assaulted ‘hundreds of times’ when she was a child.
Brian Green was tried in absentia and sentenced to 22 years in prison at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday.
He had been found guilty of five counts of rape in March. Four of the counts related to multiple incidences of rape – of which there were at least five for each.
He failed to turn up for his trial or sentencing and is the subject of an ongoing manhunt.
His victim, whose wants to remain anonymous, says she was raped ‘hundreds of times’ by Green from the ages of nine to 13.
She said: ‘It took five years for this to go to court, I want the world to know what this man is.’
The woman revealed how the abuse ‘significantly impacted’ her life.
‘It got to the point where I tried to end my own life in 2021, it’s affected me terribly.
‘In my life I have moved house 55 times, I can’t settle anywhere, I don’t feel safe anywhere.’
She called on him to give himself and serve his time in jail.
‘He knows what he’s done, he’s had a long time without facing justice – it’s time for him to face it.’
During the trial, a barrister said Green and his wife are thought to have family links to Thailand and that he might have fled there.
Prosecutor Katherine Robinson told the court that Green would tell his victim that she was ‘ugly, or stupid’.
She said: ‘He said no one loved her. She suffered and continues to suffer extreme psychological harm. She was isolated.’
Sentencing, Judge Khan QC said: ‘Threats were made towards her [the victim] and she was the victim of controlling behaviour.
‘It appears there wasn’t any other violence but there were threats of violence and the victim was humiliated and told she was ugly, stupid and nobody loved her and that was part of the approach of the defendant’s way of controlling her.
‘I am satisfied the defendant was premeditated in the offending.”
The judge said there were 21 rapes on the indictment, but added that ‘there was no real argument against this – there were many many more rapes’.
West Yorkshire Police, said: ‘Brian Green has been sentenced in his absence to a lengthy jail term, reflecting the very serious non-recent offences he committed against a young and vulnerable child.
‘A warrant is out for his arrest for failure to attend at court and we would ask anyone who has seen him or has information about his whereabouts to contact Kirklees Police.’
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