A man from Warwickshire has been jailed for 12 years for the knife-point rape of an 11-year-old boy on Halloween.
Simon John Heritage, 38, attacked the child in Bedworth in Warwickshire on 31 October last year in what police officers branded a 'particularly despicable crime'.
Appearing at Warwick Crown Court he entered a guilty plea to charges which included kidnap, carrying an article with a blade, inciting a boy under 13 to engage in sexual activity and two counts of rape.
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The BBC reports that Heritage was banned from working with children for life and put on the sex offenders register.