November 2007 ‘Laughing’ teenage rapist jailed A teenager who laughed while he raped a 15-year-old girl has been given a five-and-a-half year sentence. Jamie Cradock, 17, of Stanmer Villas, Brighton, was found guilty of two counts of rape on Monday. Judge Richard Brown said he had shown no remorse for his crimes and posed a “significant risk” to the public. Lewes Crown Court heard that Cradock, who claimed the girls consented to sex, carried out his first attack in Brighton in March 2006 when he was 15. Jurors were told that he ambushed his first victim, a 15-year-old, after she became separated from her friends. Cradock attacked his second victim, a 16-year-old, in the early hours of 18 June 2006 after talking to her, then kissing her and leading her down an alleyway. The court heard he took her further down the pathway and raped her when she objected to him trying to undress her. He then called her a “bitch” before she returned to a friend, dishevelled and crying. Tony Loader, defending, said: “Jamie’s position has always been, ‘I never intended to harm or cause injury. My intention throughout was to have sexual intercourse with them. ‘I’m sorry,’ he has said to me, ‘if I misread the signals’.” The jury took 90 minutes to find Cradock guilty. Judge Brown said: “The evidence that the jury heard indicated that you blighted the lives of the two young ladies by subjecting them to horrific attacks.” In addition to his custodial sentence he was ordered to serve three years on licence after his release and sign the sex offenders register.