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,. .. 7 ~1AR 1994 4th March 1994 Defendant denies series of sexual assaults. on- Leeds. students. ~ ,. •. ' our ears o eeds Crown Court heard this \Vere making their way home after The man put his arm round her shouting at him to get off me." week how a hooded rapist nights out with friends at pubs or By Richard Fletcher throat and pushed her to the She said the man ran off when L attacked five female students clubs. ground. He put a big black padded two boys approached with a dog. during a reign of terror in the There could be little more Lane at about midnight when a man glove on his hand and put ;, over l\,,lr Paul Worsley, QC, Woodhouse area of Leeds. terrifying experience for young grabbed her from behind, put his her throat and mouth. She ,ed to prosecuting, - who believes that David Martin Jackson, 28, of women walking home alone than to hands over her mouth and pulled bite his fingers but only t the Jackson carried out the attacks - Neville View, Osmondthorpe, Leeds, be attacked and sexually assaulted her to the ground. The man ,vho material. He then turned h on to claims that Jackson was trapped by a denies one charge of rape, three by a hooded stranger, he told the wore gloves and a balaclava forced her stomach and kept his hand over letter he sent to the police in Januar} charges of indecent assault, two of court. her on to her back and knelt astride her mouth. last year, signed "Jack the Stripper". attempted indecent assault, and four A former Leeds University her. The woman told the court: "I l\llr '"'orsley told the court that of assault occasioning actual bodily student wept as she described to the The woman told the court: "I thought I was going to die. I could on January 4th last }ear a 16 year harm. jury how she was attacked in June struggled with him for quite a while. not really breathe. He told me to old girl reported that she had been Mr Paul Worsley QC, 1991 after celebrating \Vith friends I couldn't breathe. I thought I was stop struggling or he would kill raped on the evening of January prosecuting, told the jury of seven the end of her final exams and her going to pass out. He said 'you do me." She said that the rnan punched 2nd whilst walking across men a nd five women that the last night in Leeds. what I want or I'll hurt you or kill her two or three times. \Voodhouse Moor. attacks took place when the students She was walking along Woodhouse you'." He dragged her towards trees The report of the alleged attack The man then pulled out a and committed indecent acts against received much publicity but there penknife with the blade opened and her. The man then \valked off and were marked differences between ran it across the \voman's arm and she ran towards the main road this and the earlier attacks. The girl blouse. The \\'Oman then told how where a couple helped her. later confessed that there had never the man forced her to perform a sex The jury also heard how another been such an attack. act with him. victim pictured her own funeral as a l\.1r \Vorsley claims that it In her desperation to escape the hooded attacker prepared to rape prompted a swift response from woman sprained her ankle: ''I felt I her. She told the jury that she did David '.\,fartin Jackson in the form had been kicked front bead to toe," not struggle because she thought the of a letter to the police. she said. She had cuts on her hands man was going to kill her. She said: He claimed that Jackson did not and bruises on her legs, hips and ''I just pictured mum and dad going like the idea of someone else carrying forehead. to my funeral. Since the attack I out attacks in this area, or being Throughout her evidence David have developed a nervous disorder. blamed for a rape for which he was Martin Jackson listened showing no I can't walk in the streets any more; not responsible, and in reponse to the emotion. someone has to come with me," she publicity wrote to the Detective Another Leeds University student said. leading the investigation. told the court that she had had to The court also heard evidence The Jetter contained details of the take a year off her studies after from another woman who fought attacks \~hich had not been made being attacked on the night of back. She told the jury: "I thought public by the police. They sent the March 19th 1992. The woman had I'm not having any of this," and she Jetter for detailed forensic examination been walking along Woodhouse grabbed the man's testicles. and David Martin Jackson was Lane towards Hyde Park when she "I had long nails then. He just arrested shortly afterwards. Scene of the horrific attack Pie: Sam Greenhill became aware of a man behind her. froze and didn't say anything. I was e The case continues Woodhouse Moor rapist mocked police w ith letter. See page 5 2------------ New-s Designer Amnesty Action success ••••••••••••••••• ara An · Urgent Action Can1pa1gn · is being A forn1er student planned for next w·eek by the Amnesty deterred many from turning of Leeds International Student group at Leeds a st weeke.,d's Rag University has Carnival has been By Paul Greenough up. Metropolitan Universll1 Students Union. won a Times wri1e.s Paul Greenough slan1med for failing to Green said that he was very L Higher There \viii be a stand 1n the Students Union Radio Aire Roadshow. happy with the outcome of the live up to exoectations. Educatio11al However the parade \~as carn ival, believing it to be a at LMU's City Site campus on Monday 7th The organiser of the Supp/.ement prize DIGEST described as "a bit sn1all" by greater success than last year's March. followed by a meeting at the Beckett carnival was last year's Rag for the most one unimpressed local shopper. event which had raised £2,000 Park site on Wednesday 9th. Sabbatical Officer, Simon effecth·ely Green, who has been working "They even had a milk float as and involved even fewer floats. The aim of the can1paign is to encourage NEWS ......... 2,3,4,5 expressed entry on the parade for the last two one of their cars." he Pla ns are being n1ade to students to write letters to the en1bassies and to the Design COMMENT ....... 6,7 complained. make the carnival bigger next governments of the countries involved in months at a cost of around Council The carnival managed to year. Buchanan said: human rights outrages. ARTS ................ 8,9 £1,000 to the Union. Engineering The carnival comprised only raise about £3,000 on the day, "Although enthusiasm has Esther Moore. Chair of the group at A wards. writes MUSIC .......... 10,11 about ten floats from various with another £500 expected by dwindled recently, we are LMUSU, says that the campaign is aimed Megan Curtis. local and student organisations. this weekend. working on increasing the especially at those students who cannot CLASS/JAZZ .... 12 Leeds' LUU's Action had two floats in But this may have been attention that the Rag carnival make it to the regular meetings of Amnesty. Roundhay Park BOOKS ............. 13 the carnival, and others from higher had the turn-out of is gjven." "All it takes is about 15 minutes a month to inspired graduate the In1perial Cancer Research collectors been better. Graham Simon Green will have to do something that could save a life." she FOCUS .......... 14,15 1\-fark Little to Fund, Wheatfields Hospice and Buchanan of Rag admitted that present a report discussing the said. design a leisure CULTURE .......... 16 St Anne's Shelter were present. more collectors were n eeded problen1s experienced by the The speaker at \Vcdnesday's meeting will be complex with Also there on the day was the but the bad weather had carnival this year. Linda Waterworth, the Leeds co-ordinator of THE GUIDE .. 17-23 arena and An1nesty's 'Urgent Action Scheme·. The CLASSIFIEDS ... 24 swimming pool meeting will be held at 7pn1 in the Grey facilities. Room at Beckett Park. TRAVEL ............. 25 The judges For more infonnauon contact Niyi Akeju. SPORT ... 26, 27, 28 praised Little, Room 45, Bronte Hall, Beckett Park on Bv Alun Watkins describing him as Leeds 756844. having ''mastered the con1plexities The story continues ... eeds Tibet Weck starts on of designing a LMonday \VJth events taking building while ••••••••••••••••• place 1n Leeds University Elliot Reuben, Leeds University Union Leedl S1t,d!'III is an independent using Financial Affairs Secretary, has decided newspaper ser, ing students al Union and across the cit). considerable The events. which wi JI run not to resign from his Exec position after Leeds l'niver~ity, Leeds imagination:· receiving several letters of support from Metn,politan Univcr~1ty and from Thursday 10th to Wednesday 16th March. arc students, writes Helen Crossley. other colleges in and around Last week's Leeds Student reported Leeds. All our journalists abide being organised by the LUU Gender Reuben's doubts over continuing in his by a code of conduct, hut if you Tibet Support Group 10 raise Bender? post, following the OGM decision to ban have any complaints please awareness of the a trocities The Sun from the Union, and although he contact the Editor.