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Offender Databases Alan Rutledge

Alan Gordon Rutledge

Alias

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Offences

Premeditated rape, grevious bodily harm with intent to commit rape and sexual violation of a Christchurch woman after invading her home in November 1997, then causing grevious bodily harm to her 62 year old neighbour who came to her aid, also possession of a cannabis pipe

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1963

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 12 and a half years in April 1998

Background
THE PRESS, April 24th 1998
An unemployed man has been sentenced to 12 years six months jail for a "sustained and frenzied" sex attack in which he raped and severely injured a woman and then jumped on the head of a 62-year-old neighbour who came to her aid. In the Christchurch District Court yesterday, Alan Gordon Rutledge, 35, pleaded guilty to rape, causing grievous bodily harm with intent to commit rape, sexual violation, breaking into the woman's home, causing grievous bodily harm to the neighbour with intent to facilitate the commission of an offence, and possession of a cannabis pipe.

Prosecutor Leah Robertson said Rutledge had planned the November 13 attack by following the 31-year-old complainant to her home from a hotel where he subjected her to a "vicious, sustained, and brutal attack. He attempted to force himself on her and when she resisted, he repeatedly punched her, culminating in fracturing her eye socket. She blacked out because of the beatings."

"Miraculously, she was able to free herself and run next door to a neighbour. While trying to protect her, the neighbour was punched to the ground and stomped on the head by Rutledge." Rutledge then forced the woman to perform oral sex but ran off when the neighbour returned with a kitchen knife, Ms Robertson said.

Stephen Hembrow, defending, said Rutledge's initial lack of remorse was because he was completely unable to remember the incident but accepted he was to blame after seeing all the evidence. Rutledge had no convictions in the past 14 years. Judge Stephen Erber said both victims were hospitalised by the attack, with the neighbour having to have a plate inserted in his fractured jaw. "Clearly you were under the influence of drink and/or drugs. This was a frenzied and sustained attack on the two victims and the level of violence was very great. It is difficult to find a similar case of such sustained and frenzied violence," he said.

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