[31 OCT 00] CRIMES, FIRES & ACCIDENTS
Hunt On For Rugby Sex Attacker

A bogus meter reader armed with a knife sexually assaulted a Rugby woman after bluffing his way into her house.

The man knocked on the door at the house in Jubilee Road, Rugby on 26 October at 1pm.

He told the 29-year-old woman who opened it that he had come to read her meter. He was polite, well spoken and had a credit card-sized identity badge.

Once inside the house the man pushed the woman to the ground and sexually assaulted her.

He was carrying a knife, and during the attack the woman suffered several minor injuries that did not require hospital treatment.

The victim later told detectives that the attack lasted 20 minutes. The man made threats to her, but did not rape her.

He escaped through the back door at about 1.20pm and went into the service road area behind the houses.

Detectives today issued an artist’s impression of the man to encourage the public to help track him down.

DS Mick Reardon said:

“This was an extremely unusual and disturbing incident and we are anxious to speak to anyone who can help us find the person responsible.”

Anyone who was in the Jubilee Road, Lawford Road or New Bilton area last Thursday lunchtime is being urged to think if they can remember seeing anyone fitting the attacker’s description.

He is white, in his late 20s or early 30s, and is about 6ft tall with broad shoulders, slim build and mousy brown untidy hair.

He was wearing dark blue polyester trousers and a sweatshirt with an identity badge.