UK: A 16-year-old schoolboy admitted that he attacked and raped a teacher the day after she started at his London school.
The teacher struggled to defend herself during the frenzied attack which continued for 12 minutes. But the 5ft 11in, powerfully built teenager headbutted and threatened to kill her before finally overpowering her.
During a preliminary hearing at the Old Bailey court in London last month, the youth, who was 15 at the time, denied raping the teacher.
But yesterday his counsel Jeremy Dein QC asked for the charge to be read to him again. He pleaded guilty to raping the 28-year-old woman on September 7th last year.
Brendan Kelly, prosecuting, described the teacher's ordeal as "a sustained and violent and sexual attack". He said the sexual assault counts outlined the circumstances leading up to the oral rape and were not disputed by the boy.
"The defendant accepts full responsibility in the sustained attack," he said.
The teacher was marking books at her desk in the inner London school classroom at the end of the school day when she was aware of the door swinging open. She did not look up, but then felt a strong arm round her.
At first she believed it was a student joking. "But she felt the grip tighten and she was pulled out of her chair," Mr Kelly told the court.
"He was telling her to be quiet and dragged her the length of the classroom. He is a large boy. He had no trouble dragging her, while continuing to tell her to be quiet.
"He applied force to her neck, in particular to her windpipe. She had the presence of mind to breathe through her nose."
The teacher - who described teaching as "very much her vocation" - tried to fend the youth off by stabbing him with a pen. She dropped it, but continued to struggle. He then pulled her shirt from her with one action and bit her breast.
"As she tried to push him away, he grabbed her waistband and ripped her trousers from her with one movement. The attack continued.
"He had his hands clamped round her neck during most of the time, but she tried to throw furniture at him. He was not deterred. He made it quite clear he would kill her and repeated the threat throughout. It was clear to her that he intended to rape her vaginally and did all she could to resist. He then headbutted her."
Mr Kelly said that in the latter part of the attack he forced her to engage in oral sex. He then gave up and ran from the school.
During the attack, the teacher had the presence of mind to retain fluids from the youth, later used to identify him.
CCTV cameras also caught him on film as he made his escape. - (PA)