A Daventry Rapist sex offender, Adam Cuss, informed his victim of his intention to transport her to the lake and assault her, the court was informed.
Adam Cuss, 26, was sentenced to five years in prison at Oxford Crown Court last week after confessing to the violent assault.
Prosecutor Alexandra Bull informed Recorder Stuart Trimmer KC that the defendant assaulted his victim while escorting her to her flat in Witney during the early hours of March 26 of the previous year.
“He pushed her to the floor and put his weight on top of her. He started saying he was going to [have sex with] her, they were going to go down to the lake and he would rape her,” the prosecutor said.
Adam Cuss was said to have told the woman he ‘worked with butchers’ knives and he was going to cut her up’, the court heard.
“This isn’t you,” she told the attacker, screaming his name repeatedly.
He was said to have replied: “This is me. I’ve been wanting to do this for months.”
He touched the woman, telling her: “You like this, don’t you?” She made it clear that she did not.
At one point she tried to punch him, ‘which made him angry’.
In the hope of buying herself time to get help, she told Adam Cuss they could ‘do it in her flat’.
He then dragged her a short distance, the court heard.
A neighbour was at the communal door to the flats as they arrived at the block.
“She said to [the neighbour] that he was trying to rape her and asked her help. The neighbour told her to go upstairs,” Ms Bull told the court.
The woman ran upstairs and called for help.
She could hear Adam Cuss tell her neighbour that he was her ‘brother’.
Having reached the safety of her flat, the victim received a Facebook message from the defendant saying ‘you’re done, I’m coming back now’.
She later became aware that the front door had been damaged.
Appearing before Oxford Crown Court on Thursday (March 2), Adam Cuss, of Chartwell Close, Daventry, admitted attempted sexual assault by penetration, sexual assault and criminal damage.
Recorder Trimmer imposed five years’ imprisonment and a restraining order banning him from contacting his victim for 10 years.
The case was dealt with without a pre-sentence report from the probation service.
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