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26/04/2006
Convicted murderer jailed for life for raping boy
A convicted murderer who raped a ten-year-old boy while out on license has been jailed for life.
Stephen Ayre, 44, had pleaded guilty to abducting and raping the boy in the Bradford area of West Yorkshire in February.
Ayre had served a twenty-year sentence for the murder of Irene Hudson in 1984. The battered body of the 25-year-old was discovered in Shipley.
Ayre had been released on license last April, just months before the rape of the boy took place.
During a hearing at Leeds Crown Court it emerged that the Parole Board had refused to free Ayre four times.
At sentencing at Leeds Crown Court, Mr Justice Tugendhat said that Ayre posed a risk to young people and ordered him to be imprisoned for life, rather than serve a minimum jail sentence.
He said: "I am sentencing you for these crimes. This is not an inquiry into how you were free to commit them.
"I understand the family and the public will be concerned about certain aspects of this case."
(KMcA/CD)
Stephen Ayre, 44, had pleaded guilty to abducting and raping the boy in the Bradford area of West Yorkshire in February.
Ayre had served a twenty-year sentence for the murder of Irene Hudson in 1984. The battered body of the 25-year-old was discovered in Shipley.
Ayre had been released on license last April, just months before the rape of the boy took place.
During a hearing at Leeds Crown Court it emerged that the Parole Board had refused to free Ayre four times.
At sentencing at Leeds Crown Court, Mr Justice Tugendhat said that Ayre posed a risk to young people and ordered him to be imprisoned for life, rather than serve a minimum jail sentence.
He said: "I am sentencing you for these crimes. This is not an inquiry into how you were free to commit them.
"I understand the family and the public will be concerned about certain aspects of this case."
(KMcA/CD)
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