Rapist who attacked schoolgirl in uniform jailed for 12 years
Rapist who attacked schoolgirl in uniform jailed for 12 years
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A sex predator who fled to Scotland after abducting and raping a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint on her walk to school has been jailed for 12 years. ‘Calculated and predatory’ Oliver Smith, 21, pounced on the teenager in her school uniform and pulled a box-cutter blade on her as she walked through a nature area.
![[Oliver Smith, 21, has been sentenced today (Friday 24 January) to 12 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to multiple offences, including kidnapping and rape in Bordon. Smith, of South Hurst, Whitehill, who identifies as transgender and uses they/them pronouns, entered the pleas when they appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court on Monday 4 November.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_237217050-3414.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
In the 45-minute ordeal, he subjected her to ‘gratuitous threats of violence’ and forced her to a secluded woodland spot and raped her up against a tree. When the ‘scared’ and ‘sobbing’ schoolgirl tried to flee, Smith chased after her and grabbed hold of her mouth to cover her screams, threatening to stab her in the throat.
A court heard Smith meticulously planned the attack by scoping out the woods, wearing gloves, washing the victim in a river afterwards, and had a ‘deeply disturbing’ manifesto. Nine months before the attack Smith was convicted of voyeurism and having child abuse images – but escaped jail.
After the horrific rape, he fled 600 miles away to a remote part of the Scottish Highlands but couldn’t go any further as he didn’t have a passport. Smith was found by officers from Police Scotland who brought them back to England. Today, at Portsmouth Crown Court, Smith – who the court heard uses they/them pronouns – was jailed for 12 years as the schoolgirl’s parents watched on.
