By Bethany Gavaghan,David Powell
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A man has been sentenced for raping a girl on two separate occasions. Kyran Wingfield-West was 17 when he committed the offences in north west Wales. Wingfield-West admitted to two counts of raping a child under 13 at an earlier court appearance. A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court has now handed him a sentence of two years and eight months in a young offenders’ institution for each offence. Prosecutor Jemma Gordon informed the court that the victim’s father discovered the offences after finding messages expressing his daughter’s fear of being pregnant following sexual intercourse with Wingfield-West. The father reported the matter to the police, who initiated an investigation. Don’t miss a court report by signing up to our crime newsletter here They discovered that the defendant had asked the girl if he should bring a condom, to which she agreed before he then raped her twice in a car park. Wingfield-West was said not to have ejaculated and to have assured the girl she could not be pregnant, North Wales Live reported. When police became involved the defendant told the girl to delete a messaging app, the court heard. In a statement the victim said now that she is older she understands even more how wrong the defendant’s behaviour was. It has “tainted” her impression of her home. She also said her ordeal must have been so difficult for her dad to deal with. Dafydd Roberts, defending, said an expert’s report found Wingfield-West is a “naive soul”. The barrister also claimed that whilst his victim had been too young to consent it had been “sex by agreement”. He suggested ordering the defendant to do rehabilitation and other work in the community rather than for him to go into immediate custody. The judge Her Honour Nicola Jones told the defendant in the dock that as the girl had been under 13 she “did not have the capacity to give her consent” to sex. The judge also accepted that he had a learning disability but he had tried to interfere with the police investigation by telling the girl to delete the app. She reduced his sentence due to his immaturity, mental health difficulties and guilty pleas. She also made Wingfield-West, now of Ropery Road, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the subject of a restraining order, and also to sex offender notification requirements and a sexual harm prevention order – both to run indefinitely.
