Robert Tempest – Blackhall Colliery, County Durham

A child rapist has been locked up for 17 years after ruining a girl’s life through systematic sexual abuse

Robert Tempest was convicted of carrying out a series of depraved acts on the child after the court heard her heartbreaking testimony during the trial.

The 52-year-old admitting repeatedly raping the child and threatening her to make the victim comply with further deviant behaviour

Tempest of Attlee Avenue, Blackhall Colliery, County Durham was convicted of four counts of child rape and two counts of sexual assaults

Judge Advocate Tom Mitchell told Tempest he had committed some of the worse offending possible as he sentenced him to 17 years in custody.

Tempest was issued with an indefinite restraining order to protect the victim

He was also ordered to register as a sex offender for life and was issued with an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.