30 January 2009

London News: Kennington fitness instructor to be sentenced for stalking and raping a charity worker and kidnapping the son she had as a result


London News: Kennington fitness instructor to be sentenced for stalking and raping a charity worker and kidnapping the son she had as a result Friday, 30 January 2009 A FITNESS instructor from Kennington, who stalked and raped a charity worker and later kidnapped the son she had as a result, is due to be sentenced today.

Jordan Shodeke launched his "campaign of terror" after his unsuspecting victim tried to find him a job.

Inner London Crown Court heard he repaid her kindness with a nightmare of fear and pain that saw him "throwing her over his shoulder", imprisoning her in her home and then forcing himself upon her.

Later he tracked her down again, repeatedly turned up at her work and threatened to hurt or kill her.

Then, a week after she gave birth, he confronted her in the street, punched her to the ground, grabbed the infant like a "rag doll" and yanked him from his pushchair.

He also attacked two relatives with her, before dumping the child in the stairwell of a block of flats.

Shodeke, 26, of Cotton Gardens, Kennington, south London, was found guilty of rape, false imprisonment, actual bodily harm, kidnap, common assault and causing fear of violence by harassment between December 2006 and October 2007.

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