Norman Carr

A rapist who attacked a woman during a visit to North Yorkshire has been jailed for six years — as a judge warned she could spend the rest of her life suffering the consequences.

Norman Carr, 55, of Byron Street, Wheatley Hill, County Durham, admitted rape at York Crown Court.

Carr was staying in North Yorkshire for a few days when he got drunk and raped the woman.

Sentencing him, the Recorder of York, Judge Sean Morris, described the devastating impact on his victim. The court heard that coming to terms with the rape could take years, and she might never fully recover.

The judge made clear that the woman bore absolutely no responsibility for Carr’s actions.

Carr was sentenced to six years in prison and placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.

He was also banned from contacting the woman for life and made subject to an eight-year sexual harm prevention order, imposing restrictions on his behaviour and allowing police to monitor him.