A PAEDOPHILE who raped the same girl four times is behind bars after being found guilty of his crimes.

Yesterday, Wayne Russell was told he is facing a “significant custodial sentence” by Judge Nicholas Cartwright, after he was found guilty of four counts of rape following a five day trial at Worcester Crown Court.

The jury of seven women and five men took three-and-a-half hours to reach their verdicts.

Russell, aged 49, of Lilac Avenue, Tolladine, showed no reaction as the jury foreman announced the verdict.

The rapes took place between January 2010 and January 2016, and all throughout this period the girl was under the age of 16.

The victim was first raped in an alleyway near a school off Green Lane when she was aged nine or 10, the court heard.

She told police: “We had sex but I didn’t want to.”

After the rape, the victim said she was pushed to the floor, which resulted in her hurting her arm and cutting her leg.

Another of the rapes took place at Russell's Tolladine flat. The victim said she was 14 or 15 at the time, and she was raped after smoking cannabis and drinking Strongbow.

Referring to herself as ‘tipsy’, the complainant recounted how Russell held her down on her back by her wrists and told her the sex was ‘payment for letting me stay’.

In the police recorded interview that was shown to the jury, an officer asked her if Russell knew she did not want to have sex with him, and she replied ‘yes’. At one stage she told officers “I’ve tried to block it out.”

Russell’s former stepmother told the court the victim turned up on her doorstep after the rape at his flat. The witness said the victim collapsed before coming round, and she described her as “very pale, lethargic, miserable and filthy”, when usually she was “bubbly”.

A third rape took place in Cripplegate Park, when the victim was aged 12 or 13, with Russell assaulting her after they had arranged to meet.

The fourth rape took place at Brickfields Park after Russell had bought the girl two bottles of Lambrini. The jury heard that Russell assaulted her behind a shelter in the park and then left her alone, and that her friends found her and called the police and an ambulance, and she had to spend time in hospital.

In her evidence the victim also told the jury she was “scared” of Russell.

Russell, when he took the stand, claimed the rapes “did not happen”. He told the jury he hadn’t been to three of the locations where the alleged rapes took place and that the victim had never been to the flat where he was said to have raped her.

Russell stared ahead when the foreman returned the guilty verdicts on Friday afternoon. There were also sobs in the public gallery.

Following the verdict, Judge Cartwright said he would need to read the victim's personal statement before deciding on Russell’s sentence.

At the end of the hearing Russell was told to stand up, and the judge told him he would be sentenced on March 13.

“You are facing a significant custodial sentence,” the judge told him, before sending him down to be remanded in custody until March 13.

West Mercia Police did not have a custody photo of Russell when asked by the Worcester News.

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