Soldier Jailed After Rape Victim Left Samples Of DNA In Her Attacker's Car

Teenager left her hair and saliva in Jonathan Haynes' vehicle leading to indefinite sentence for the 'clever, cunning predator'.












Jonathan Haynes, 30, a lance ­corporal with the Royal Logistics Corps, has been jailed indefinitely for raping three teenagers.

A brave and quick thinking teenage rape victim helped police trap a serial sex attacker by spitting in his car and leaving a strand of hair hidden in the vehicle.

The girl yanked out strands of her hair and pushed them down the seat of soldier Jonathan Haynes' car. She also spat in the vehicle to make sure traces of her DNA could be found.

Haynes was jailed indefinitely for raping three teenagers and trying to abduct two schoolgirls.

He raped two of the teenagers after seizing them from the streets of a market town in Wiltshire and bundling them into his car. Haynes, a lance corporal with the Royal Logistic Corps, attacked the third teenager after breaking into a university halls of residence.

Haynes tried to grab the two 14-year-old schoolgirls from a country lane.

Following the sentencing, police said they believed Haynes, 30, could be responsible for more attacks and appealed for any other potential victims to come forward.

Haynes was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection and ordered to serve at least 11 years' imprisonment but warned he may never be released. Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recorder of Bristol, called him a "clever and cunning predator".

A jury at Bristol crown court was told that Haynes, who was based at a barracks near Chippenham, Wiltshire, planned his attacks meticulously.

The first kidnap and rape happened in September 2009 in Chippenham as the 16-year-old victim made her way home from a night out.

Just 13 days later he raped an 18-year-old student after forcing entry to her halls of residence in Pontypridd, south Wales.

The following February, he attempted to snatch the two schoolgirls late at night from a country lane near Chippenham.

Weeks later Haynes kidnapped an 18-year-old girl off the streets of Chippenham and repeatedly raped her. She had the presence of mind to yank out strands of her own hair and leave them in the car and spit in the seat – something she had seen on television crime shows.

Speaking outside court when Haynes was convicted last month, she said: "I thought there's going to be an investigation and I wanted to help.

"When I was in the car I pulled out some of my own hair and I made sure I spat on the seat, so if it was ever found there was proof I had been in the car.

"It still surprises me now, it sounds silly, but I have always been a fan of CSI programmes. I've watched so many of them, I know what to do and how things work."

She said it was terrible to see Haynes in court lying about his offences. "It was horrible and as I stood there I was thinking how someone could make up such detailed lies.

"I'm just disgusted by him. For a human being to have any thoughts like that, to do something to someone ... it's horrible.

"I am so relieved that it is over. It has felt like a very long time that this has gone on for. A huge weight has been lifted."

Following the hearing the victim of the first attack, who asked to be known by the pseudonym of Abbi, said she felt guilty that she had not been able to help the police prevent further assaults.

She said: "I just want girls, not just young girls but girls of all ages, to be aware of the sort of people that are out there.

"I thought I was safe, only seconds away from my house. I learnt the hard way, I wouldn't want anyone else to.

"It's harder to trust men, just because of one sick individual, which is sad.

"I felt really bad when I'd heard someone else had been attacked, I blamed myself for not being able to give more information to help catch him.

"But anyone that goes to the police is doing their bit. It is hard but it's worth it in the end."

Forensic analysis of Haynes' laptop seized from his room at the barracks showed he carried out hundreds of searches on the internet for information relating to the attacks. He would even search for the names of his victims on social networking sites such as Facebook and Friends Reunited.

Haynes, from Northampton, was found guilty of rape, kidnap and attempted kidnap. He was also charged with child pornography offences but the crown decided not to proceed with the prosecution.Speaking after the hearing, Detective Chief Inspector Bob Hamlin, of Wiltshire police, said there could be many more victims and his team were now examining other unsolved cases in the area.

He said: "We are investigating more cases that are unsolved but it is hard to put a figure on just how many more offences this dangerous man could have committed.

"He is one of the most evil men I've dealt with in 32 years of work. The horror the victims suffered can never be forgotten."

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed Haynes is no longer a serving soldier.

Priorities Questioned Over Defence Cuts

Nearly 2,000 armed services personnel are learning that their jobs are to disappear today.

At least half of the 920 Army jobs and 930 RAF roles are expected to face compulsory redundancies in the first round of defence cuts.












RAF pilots prepare for a mission over Libya.

The Gurkhas face the heaviest cuts, with 140 soldiers facing redundancy. No service personnel currently receiving the operational allowance will be forced to leave, however.

"Just as many RAF personnel will be thinking about returning home having performed heroics in Libya, ministers are drawing up their P45s," shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said.

"People will be shocked and will wonder whether the government have got their priorities straight."

The defence cuts follow an eight per cent overall reduction in the MoD's budget in the comprehensive spending review.

Broader financial problems have forced defence secretary Liam Fox to seek a more fundamental rationalising of his department, leading to plans for over 22,000 jobs to go in total by 2015.

"The tough measures will bring the budget largely into balance for the first time in a generation," Mr Fox said.

"Extra money allocated for the equipment budget from 2015 will allow capability to grow in the second half of the decade."

The slow-burning nature of the cuts makes them politically sensitive, however. Around 1,600 redundancies in the Royal Navy are expected to be announced next month.

"This underlines the scale of the government's cuts in manpower. The frontline cannot be protected from cuts this deep," Mr Murphy added.

"Savings must be made, but in a world of uncertainty to many this will seem a worrying loss of important capability."

British Army Faces Further Inquiries Into Alleged Abuse Of Iraqi Prisoners

Other torture allegations remain to be heard after army cleared of systemic abuse in Baha Mousa case.












The British army faces further inquiries into its treatment of prisoners in Iraq. Above, Al-Ma'aqal prison in Basra, 2004.

The Baha Mousa report is not the only one to look into the question of the "systemic" abuse of Iraqi prisoners.

A second inquiry is to open later this year, examining disputed allegations that up to 20 men were tortured and murdered in British custody after a gun battle in southern Iraq in 2004.

That inquiry became inevitable after the high court severely criticised the Royal Military Police's investigation into the affair and said that courts should be wary of evidence given by the RMP's second in command.

The court of appeal is currently considering whether to order a third inquiry, into the military's entire detention and interrogation policy, after hearing arguments on behalf of more than 150 men who allege they were systematically tortured by the British army in south-east Iraq between 2003 and 2008.

The complaints include 59 allegations of detainees being hooded, 11 of electric shocks, 122 of sound deprivation through the use of ear muffs, 52 of sleep deprivation, 131 of sight deprivation using blackened goggles, 39 of enforced nakedness and 18 of being kept awake by pornographic DVDs played on laptops.

The Ministry of Defence's lawyers have conceded that the individual allegations "raise an arguable case of breach of Article 3" of the European convention on human rights, which prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. But, in its attempts to persuade the courts that a third inquiry is not needed, the MoD has set up a team of 80 investigators, half of them former civilian detectives, to examine the allegations.

The Iraq historic allegations team (Ihat) is now scouring MoD records, including hundreds of video recordings of military interrogations, and interviewing the complainants.

Many of the complaints centre on a secretive Intelligence Corps facility known as the joint forces interrogation team, or JFIT. Already, three men who served at the JFIT have been referred to the director of service prosecutions, who has been asked to consider war crimes charges under the 2001 International Criminal Court Act.

Nine other deaths in British military custody are also being re-examined.

Red Arrows Jet Crashes At Air Show - Pilot Severely Injured

Red Arrow crashes in Bournemouth Airshow

A Red Arrows stunt plane crashed at an air show in southern England this afternoon - with the fate of its pilot unconfirmed.

The Royal Air Force jet was one of nine from the Red Arrows taking part in the air show at Bournemouth airport.

The Ministry of Defense said it was investigating, but gave no further details.

Witnesses said nine planes took off from Bournemouth Airport to perform a display, but only eight landed.

Local resident Shaun Spencer-Perkins said the plane came down in fields, near a river.

"I heard a rushing sound and I saw a plane about 15 meters (50ft) above the ground racing across the fields," he said. "It impacted and bounced across the field."

He said two members of the public jumped into a nearby river to search for the pilot, who had ejected moments before the crash.

The Bournemouth Air Festival said events were continuing as scheduled.

The Red Arrows are famous for their airborne stunts, multicolored vapor trails, dramatic flypasts and trademark diamond formation.

Formed in late 1964, the Arrows have flown more than 4,000 displays in 53 countries. Their red single-engine jet trainers are a familiar sight at air shows and military events.

There hasn't been a Red Arrows fatality since 1971, when four pilots died in a mid-air collision at Kemble, Glos, as two Folland Gnats attempted a cross-over manouevre known as the Roulette at speeds of 700mph.

The nine-pilot stunt team last had an accident in March 2010, when two jets crashed in training in Crete. Neither pilot was seriously injured in that incident.