Teenager dubbed `Brixton R Kelly´ jailed for 22 rape offences

A teenage serial rapist dubbed the ‘Brixton R Kelly‘ has been jailed for 12 years after committing a three-year marketing campaign of sexual violence towards six younger ladies.

Kevarnie Queen, 19, manipulated and brutally raped six ladies – as younger as 15 – over a interval of three years after messaging the vast majority of them on Snapchat. 

He was convicted in August, following a trial at Inner London Crown Court, of twenty-two counts of rape dedicated between 2019 and 2022.

Queen – who Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) stated was identified on social media because the ‘Brixton R Kelly’ – was 15 years previous throughout a lot of his offending and all of the complainants, who can’t be recognized for authorized causes, have been underneath the age of 18.

Some of his victims, whose harrowing sufferer influence statements have been learn aloud in court docket, have been spiritual and had solely deliberate to have intercourse solely after getting married.

One sufferer instructed of how she ‘misplaced her innocence, her voice and her integrity’ because of Queen’s actions, the court docket heard. One sufferer even described predatory Queen as a ‘demon’.

Several of them had tried suicide after being abused by Queen and three had additionally contracted sexually transmitted infections.

Heartbreaking influence statements from his victims, a few of whom wept in court docket as their statements have been learn by prosecutor Laurie-Anne Power KC, demonstrated the extreme influence of Queen’s actions.

His first sufferer, who was raped by Queen after they have been each simply 15, instructed the court docket she had remoted herself after her abuse and nonetheless struggled to go away her residence years later.

Another sufferer, who wrote her assertion to straight deal with Queen, instructed the court docket she had tried suicide on three separate events and had turned to medication to ‘numb the ache’.

‘The ache you will have brought on in my life won’t ever be forgotten,’ she instructed her abuser, who appeared unmoved within the dock by the passionate deal with.

‘I endure from PTSD. Every time I see a lady youngster I pray they may keep away from assembly a demon such as you.

‘To hear you will have different victims after me proves that you’re heartless.

‘When I take a look at myself within the mirror I see a broken soul. My insecurities have been used towards me with [Queen’s] fixed physique shaming.

‘I trusted him and he betrayed me.’

Another of the victims, who was in an abusive relationship with Queen for round two years, instructed the court docket he had appeared ‘disinterested’ as she gave proof throughout his trial.

‘The solely method I can describe him for what he did to me is evil,’ she stated.

‘We have been in a relationship for 2 years. I’m assured in saying he isn’t sorry for what he has performed.

‘He is simply sorry he obtained caught. He did not deal with me like a human.

‘[Queen] was and at all times might be a hazard to all women and girls.’

One of the sufferer’s moms instructed the court docket Queen’s actions had brought on ‘years and years of struggling’ in only a matter of hours which had left her youngster ‘a shell’ of the lady she was.

The lady’s daughter instructed the court docket she had even acquired demise threats on Snapchat after it emerged that she’d reported Queen to police for raping her.

The victims have been unanimous in saying that Queen’s actions had left them virtually utterly unable to belief males, while some stated that they had turned to medication and alcohol to numb their ache.

Another sufferer added: ‘I do not imagine in love anymore.

‘I’m uninterested in getting used, mentally and bodily. My expertise with you solely led to trauma.’

During his trial, Queen had stated he had cheated on all his victims and that, in consequence, that they had conspired collectively to show him a lesson.

But a jury convicted him of the 22 rape offences.

Judge Karu defined how Queen would manipulate the women into believing they have been in a relationship with him wherein non-consensual intercourse was regular.

‘You raped 5 15-year-old ladies, and all however considered one of them have been raped greater than as soon as.

‘It mattered to not you whether or not any of them consented or not.

‘You manipulated every of them to believing they have been in a relationship with you in order that they would not report you.’

Judge Usha Karu, Honorary Recorder of Southwark, handed Queen an prolonged sentence of 16 years on Monday.

The longest he’ll stay in detention at a younger offenders’ establishment is 12 years, after which he might be on prolonged licence for 4 years.

The teenager might be seen with tear tracks on his face as he left the dock.

Referring to the complainants, the decide stated: ‘They have all been severely traumatised by the occasions. Given their youth that is more likely to be lengthy lasting.’

Expanding on the sufferer influence statements learn out in court docket final week, the decide stated complainants instructed of making an attempt suicide or having suicidal ideas, being manipulated by Queen, being unable to belief males and not believing in love.

Referring to one of many ladies, the decide stated: ‘(She) speaks of your manipulative behaviour and the way she ‘misplaced’ herself.

‘She had confided in you about having been beforehand abused and also you took benefit of her vulnerability.

‘She suffers from flashbacks, her current relationship has been affected, she finds it troublesome to belief others and has relived previous trauma that she had tried to bury.’

Judge Karu discovered Queen legally harmful and stated: ‘You are a assured younger man and seem to proceed to carry the identical agency views in respect of intercourse, and entitlement to it, which you probably did on the time of offending.’

She subjected him to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order till additional order in addition to indefinite notification necessities.

The defendant was likened on social media to American R&B singer R Kelly, who was sentenced in February to twenty years in jail for youngster pornography and enticement of minors for intercourse.

Queen met all however one of many complainants via Snapchat the place he would ‘flatter and groom them’ earlier than arranging to satisfy, in line with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

The court docket heard on Monday that Queen would flirt, name the ladies ‘stunning’ and invite them to his residence the place he would provoke sexual exercise ‘whether or not any of them consented or not’, usually ignoring direct pleas for him to cease.

He additionally compelled himself on a number of the complainants in stairwells in blocks of flats.

On one event, a complainant instructed him that he had simply raped her, to which Queen responded: ‘No, that is not rape, do not inform this to anybody, that is not rape.’

Several of the ladies suffered from sexually transmitted infections.

The CPS described him as a ‘prolific sexual predator’ who had ‘no regard for his victims’.

The court docket heard Queen had the ‘likelihood of coaching for skilled soccer’ and that ‘a possible promising future has been minimize brief’ due to his personal offending.

An creator of a pre-sentence report acknowledged that Queen has ‘entrenched beliefs concerning females and entitlement to intercourse’ and described himself as being ‘a 100% participant’.

The creator of the report stated: ‘He introduced with restricted consciousness of consent and what it entails, whereby his sexual preoccupation and perceived needs and wishes turned predatory, and took priority over the influence on the victims to attain his anticipated consequence, which was intercourse and standing.’

He was arrested in April 2020 after which once more in June and August 2022 on suspicion of assorted counts of rape which he denied, claiming the ladies have been all mendacity and have been a part of a hate marketing campaign towards him.

Following his conviction in August, Laura Devitt, senior crown prosecutor from the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Unit in London South, counseled the ‘immense bravery and psychological fortitude’ of the victims to come back ahead.

‘Queen has clearly demonstrated he noticed these younger ladies’ existence purely for his personal satisfaction,’ she stated.

‘Queen claimed he was a ‘participant’ and knew tips on how to make ladies like him and that any exercise was consensual.

‘His misogynistic and deplorable actions have now been uncovered for what they’re, and these convictions guarantee no additional ladies are brought on additional irreparable hurt at his fingers.’