TWO men who subjected a woman to a horrific rape ordeal when they dragged her onto waste land as she walked home one night more than 13 years ago have both been jailed at Leeds Crown Court. The victim, who was 31 when attacked in 1992, said she thought she was going to die when one of her tormentors – Jason Anthony Hemingway – put his hand over her face so that she could not breathe.

Although she reported the rape that night it was only last year, when samples retained from the crime were examined again with the benefit of more sophisticated DNA techniques, that the men were implicated.

Hemingway, 34, of Grantley Street, Wakefield, was jailed for 10 years yesterday after a jury convicted him of two charges of rape, one of buggery and one of robbery.

Shane Smith, 30, of Bread Street, Wakefield, was jailed for eight years. He was found guilty of robbery, and one charge of rape and one of buggery in helping his co-accused commit the offences. He was cleared of raping the woman.

Sentencing them, Judge Jennifer Kershaw said that on October 22, 1992 their victim "was a defenceless and vulnerable woman" who because of their not guilty pleas and the defences they advanced "had to relive in public in the witness box the dreadful and distressing events of that night".

Judge Kershaw said Hemingway, then 20, carried out two acts of rape and one of buggery during which he punched the woman in the face and put his hand over her mouth so she was unable to breathe. "She thought she was going to die and indeed did briefly lose consciousness," said the judge.

Smith, only 17 at the time, was a willing and enthusiastic partner who had "facilitated" Hemingway to commit his sexual offences by "physically subduing the woman by violence, holding her down, helping to turn her over and keeping her there".

The judge said it was Smith who kicked the woman in the head and body. "You waved her underwear around and made mocking remarks, you were first to go through her handbag and it was your voice she heard as she left, shouting 'We've not finished with you yet'."

The jury heard the woman, who was a heavy drinker, was walking home drunk from a nightclub in Wakefield when she was grabbed by her attackers in Park Lodge Lane, Eastmoor, in the early hours of the morning.

She was taken to a grassed area behind an electricity sub-station and the attackers just laughed when she told them to leave her alone. The younger one held her down while the older man raped her.

She said the older man accused her of being a prostitute. She managed to escape when one attacker began rifling through her handbag and she ran to a nearby flat for help.

The jury heard Hemingway accepted having sex with the woman but maintained it was with consent. In court the victim was again accused of being a prostitute.

Douglas Hogg QC, defending Hemingway, told the judge after the verdicts that on any account it was an opportunistic act rather than pre-planned.

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