Wealthy businessman and rapist, Mark Carnelley
A wealthy businessman who raped a woman at knifepoint 26 years ago and thought he had escaped justice has finally been caught after an incident gave him away.
The man identified as Mark Carnelley was caught after he got in a fight with rowdy teens outside his home decades after committing the rape crime.
Sun UK reports that Carnelley attacked the 25-year-old woman in 1990 in a busy shopping centre but police weren’t able to solve the case until they obtained a DNA sample.
Carnelley, now 52, was forced to give a sample in 2010 after he was accused of assaulting a teenager while confronting a gang of rowdy youths outside his five-bedroom house.
But it took another five years for detectives to pin the rape on him after Nottinghamshire Police carried out a cold case review of unsolved crimes in 2015.
DNA samples on the victim’s clothes were taken and provided a match with Carnelley when they were put in the police national database.
The businessman was finally put behind bars yesterday for seven years after admitting rape at Nottingham Crown Court.
He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely.
Judge Stuart Rafferty QC said: “At the age of 26 you did something absolutely unforgivable.
“As the time went by you simply confined her and that night to memory.
“Were it not for advances in science you would never have been caught.
“Thank heavens sometimes for science.”
Explaining how the rape took place, the court heard how Carnelley, who ran a successful printing firm, bundled the woman into an alleyway in Nottingham city centre on September 14, 1990.
He then threatened the victim with a knife before kissing her and pulling her to the ground in bushes where he brutally raped her.
The judge said Carnelley walked away thinking the prospect of the victim identifying him was minimal. He said the rapist had become successful and had a family but told him his victim “had nothing” because he had destroyed her.
In a statement read out in court, the victim, now in her 50s, said: “It made me feel like I wanted to rip my insides out and my body didn’t belong to me anymore.
“I never got over what happened to me.”
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