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Title: UPDATE/UK- Sex was not forced, man tells rape trial
Post by: SandraJane on January 20, 2012, 04:58:28 PM
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Sex was not forced, man tells rape trial

Published: 18/01/2012 14:35 - Updated: 18/01/2012 14:38

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Sex-was-not-forced-man-tells-rape-trial-18012012.htm (http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Sex-was-not-forced-man-tells-rape-trial-18012012.htm)

The woman at the centre of a rape trial went voluntarily to a ->-bleeped-<-'s home wearing only a coat over her underwear after seeing the cross-dresser in a fight, a court heard yesterday.

Peter Steel, also known as Tanya, is on trial with former transsexual lover Clare Lawton accused of raping the woman in Cambridge after she saw them allegedly attack another man in a Waterbeach flat last August.

Steel told Cambridge Crown Court he went to speak to the occupier of the flat in Robson Court over a separate alleged
Title: UK- Transexual and ->-bleeped-<- guilty of raping woman
Post by: SandraJane on January 24, 2012, 01:21:49 AM
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Transexual and ->-bleeped-<- guilty of raping woman

Published: 22/01/2012 06:00 - Updated: 20/01/2012 17:54

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Transexual-and-->-bleeped-<--guilty-of-raping-woman-20012012.htm (http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Transexual-and--%3E-bleeped-%3C--guilty-of-raping-woman-20012012.htm)

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Clare Lawton, left, and Peter Steel

A transexual and ->-bleeped-<- who raped a woman face a significant jail sentence after a judge described their case as one of the worst he had seen.

On Friday (Jan 20), a jury of six men and six women found Clare Lawton, of Ditton Walk, Cambridge, and Peter Steel, of Sackville Close, Cambridge, guilty of rape, inflicting grievous bodily harm, burglary and unharmful wounding.