A NEWPORT rapist was jailed indefinitely yesterday for two sex attacks within an hour in a city subway.

Wayne Jackson, 23, of Commercial Road, Pill, smirked in the dock at Cardiff Crown Court as Judge David Wynn Morgan told him he would serve a minimum of six years before being considered for parole.

Prosecutor Leighton Hughes told the court the first victim, a woman in her 20s, was walking through the subway arguing on the phone with her boyfriend after a night out in the city centre on November 20.

He said the woman saw a man, now known to be Jackson, but did not pay much attention until she finished her conversation and he appeared in front of her.

Jackson said “hello” before putting his hand over her mouth and dragging her through a doorway in the subway into an area under the railway station. The court heard Jackson kept telling the woman she was “beautiful” as he sexually assaulted her.

Mr Hughes said the woman, fearing she would be raped, believed that if she pretended to be nice to Jackson he may not hurt her and told him they could go back to her house.

They walked back to her house and the woman led Jackson straight to a room where her housemate was asleep with his girlfriend, and begged her housemate to get rid of Jackson.

Mr Hughes said: “Undeterred, and plainly still not satisfied, Jackson returned to the city centre.

“The prosecution case is simply that he was looking for another victim.”

The court heard Jackson encountered his second victim, a woman in her 30s, outside Marks and Spencer in Commercial Street. She had been looking for a taxi home.

Jackson told her he had a car and offered her a lift, before leading her through the subway, where he dragged her through the same doorway as his first victim.

After the attack, Jackson searched her bag, stole her phone and £20 cash. He told the woman he would kill her if she did not stay where she was for five minutes and left.

The court heard the woman left the scene bleeding from her mouth, crying, shaking and dishevelled and met a police sergeant who was investigating the first victim’s complaint.

Jackson was arrested on November 21 and was identified by both victims and the first victim’s housemate.

Jackson was initially charged with rape, attempted rape and robbery and pleaded guilty to robbery, but denied the sexual offences until forensic evidence linking him to the rape was found. He then pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault as an alternative to the attempted rape.

Representing Jackson, Rosie Collins said Jackson had written to the court apologising to the victims, but he was not seeking sympathy.

She said Jackson had previous convictions for robbery, but nothing of a sexual nature.

Miss Collins said the offences were “spur of the moment” but admitted Jackson was looking for someone to rob.

Judge Morgan said Jackson posed a “significant risk”

of causing serious harm to members of the public and jailed him indefinitely.

‘Vulnerable victim’ targeted

SENTENCING Jackson, Judge Morgan said: “You targeted a vulnerable victim, a lone female late at night looking for a lift home, who trusted you because you offered to help her.

“You deliberately isolated her in a place away from the public in order to commit the offence.

“You threatened to kill her and she believed you.” He said the robbery “added insult to injury” as did the fact that Jackson committed the “horrifying offences” within two weeks of the expiry of his licence period from a previous robbery sentence.

Jackson was also sentenced to concurrent terms of five years for the sexual assault and three years for the robbery.