Britain’s first date rape victim speaks of her terror as sick attacker set to walk free 18 years after attack
Christine Jones, 36, said that she felt 'physically sick' when she learnt that William Dennis Fenton, 60, would become eligible for parole next month
A RAPE victim is living in fear after finding out that her depraved attacker could be roaming the streets in just a matter of weeks.
Christine Jones, 36, felt “physically sick” upon learning that William Dennis Fenton, 60, would become eligible for parole next month.
The businesswoman from County Down, Northern Ireland, has waived her right to anonymity to launch a petition to keep Fenton behind bars.
Fenton, who laced Christine's drink with drugs before raping her was jailed in 2000 but was released early. She is thought to be the first "date rape" drug victim.
Her rapist moved to Scotland and reoffended, committing further crimes, including filming the assault of one of his victims and was jailed again in 2013 for rape and three counts of sexual assault.
Christine, who was 17 when she was attacked, was lured into Fenton’s car and given a bottle of Bacardi Breezer before she passed out.
She added: "I lost so many weeks and days of my life to that man that I won’t let him to do the same to another woman.
"I was picked up on my way to a party. I was given a drink and the drink was laced with drugs and I never made it to the party.
"I had been raped repeatedly by the vile sex monster before he dumped me on a street corner.
"If he gets out again it’ll break my heart. It’s not if he rapes again, it’s when, he’s a sexual predator. He should stay behind bars for the rest of his life. Life should mean life.
"In 20 years it’s never gone away and you get transported back into that moment again.
"If you see a certain face or a certain smell it triggers those memories and your mind goes right back to that place again.
"You have to use every technique learnt from cognitive behaviour therapy to make sure your brain doesn’t go back into flight mode.
"All I’d say is that I’m stronger now in dealing with those feelings and I don’t breakdown like I used to."
Christine, who gave evidence against Fenton in 2000 said that she had only become aware that her attacker had struck again after seeing the news in a local newspaper.
She said: "Back in 2013 I opened the papers and read he’d raped again.
"It devastated me, it took me a long time to come to terms with that.
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"I felt like it had all been in vain. I knew some woman had been saved as he’d been off for the streets for six years. What a rape victim goes through in court is often even more horrific than the act itself.
"You’re ripped apart from the defence and then you stand there and listen to what happened to your body. You hear the sentence and you have relief but then he gets out in six.
"I wasn’t able to fight him off when I was 17. I was drugged so I didn’t have the capability to fight him off but I'm now 36 and I'm standing strong against him with the help of others.
"This is my fight against him. I'm standing strong for every woman he’s raped. I want the public outcry to be heard. I want all his victims to have the strength to come forward."
A spokesman for Parole Board Scotland said that the board doesn't comment on individual cases.
Christine's petition can be read
