To save the life of a man she was on her first date with, a woman was made to have sex with a stranger.
As they headed home together, the victim was arranging to see her new partner again when vicious Sean Robinson ambushed them.
He gave the victim a brutal thrashing, leaving him bleeding and unconscious.
As her new friend lay lifeless on the ground Robinson – then just 17 – snarled to the woman: “If you come and have sex with me I will not kill him.”
Jane Waugh, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court in a desperate bid to save her date’s life the woman, who was in her 20s, endured a sickening rape ordeal.
“She had witnessed the horrific violence and knew what he was capable of,” Miss Waugh said.
“She decided, in order to save his life and protect herself from the defendant’s unpredictable violence, she would have to agree to have sex with him so he would leave him alone.”
Robinson made the victim lie on an old coat he found in bushes and raped her, saying: “If you stop I will go and kill him you know.”
When she cried he said: “Shut up and stop being a baby.”
Both victims suffered psychological and physical injuries.
The woman said the time since the attack had been the worst of her life and added she felt stuck reliving the traumatic experience over and over again becoming a prisoner in her own head.
Her date said: “The last memory I have of this is waking up dazed and seeing a male standing over me and a look of terror on her face.
“At the time I didn’t know what had happened but have since found out she was raped.
“The feeling of guilt has persisted. I forever wish I could have helped her.”
Jailing him for five years with an extended three years on licence Judge Stephen Earl said dangerous Robinson, who admitted rape and assault, had committed an abominable’ attack with catastrophic consequences.
The judge said it was not consensual sex and the victim had only gone along with it in order to protect herself and reasonably to protect the life of her new friend.He issued a permanent restraining order preventing the assailant from coming near the couple.
