Febuary 2007 JAILED FOR RAPING GIRL A 45-YEAR-OLD former Keswick man who raped a young girl before terrifying her into keeping her ordeal secret has been jailed indefinitely. Alexander Graves targeted his victim for years and then accused her of wanting a sexual relationship when he was caught. Graves, who lived in Wigton then Keswick, sometimes made the youngster wear her school uniform while he carried out the attacks, Derby Crown Court was told. Afterwards he warned her not to tell anyone or it would be “more trouble that it was worth.” In December last year, at the end of a week-long trial, a jury found him guilty of one offence of rape and two charges of sexual activity with a child. Graves, 45, who carried out the attacks between August 2002 and last July, was cleared of a second rape and indecency with a child. He was handed an indeterminate sentence for the protection of the public and told to serve at least five years and four months in jail. Also ordering him to register as a sex-offender for life, Judge John Wait said it would be up to the parole board to decide when he could be freed. The court heard that Graves once studied with a view to becoming a teacher but was dissuaded from the profession after gaining his degree. Passing sentence, Judge Wait told him: “You are an educated man and a devious man and I do not accept you have dealt truthfully with anybody. “There is a real risk that you would commit another offence, causing serious harm.” The court heard how the attacks allegedly began when the girl was aged 12. The youngster complained after Graves moved from Keswick to Hilton, near Derby, last year.