Professional rugby player who raped 2 women in London ‘took pleasure in victim’s fear, pain and humiliation’

An expert rugby player expelled from Princeton University for committing a intercourse assault has been jailed for 18 years after raping two women in London.

Paulo Kretteis, aged 22, earned a scholarship to the Ivy League college in New Jersey – however was thrown out in May 2019 after a confirmed allegation of “non-consensual sexual activity” following an inside investigation, Isleworth Crown Court heard.

The twin Brazilian nationwide, who had been chosen for Brazil’s under-21s rugby group, was discovered responsible of raping two women and making a risk to kill following a trial in January.

Kretteis, of Northolt, West London, who performed rugby professionally for the Ealing Trailfinders, beforehand pleaded responsible to 2 counts of assault occasioning precise bodily hurt.

Judge Giles Curtis-Raleigh jailed him for a complete of 18 years on Friday with a five-year interval on prolonged licence.

In his sentencing remarks, the decide mentioned Kretteis had taken “actual pleasure” in his first victim’s “concern, pain and humiliation” after he punched her in the face, having informed her to smile when she requested if she nonetheless had all her tooth left in a “significantly chilling” a part of the assault.

A CCTV footage nonetheless issued by the Crown Prosecution Service of Paulo Kretteis

The second lady, the decide mentioned, was left “bodily, psychologically and emotionally” harmed by the assault and took to sleeping with a kitchen knife by her mattress out of concern.

Judge Curtis-Raleigh informed Kretteis: “In each their instances they had been in no place by any means to withstand the violence, each sexual and bodily, you inflicted on them by cause of your appreciable measurement and power.”

The decide mentioned his expulsion from Princeton had been the “most plain and unambiguous warning” about his behaviour in direction of women.

“It is a measure of your conceitedness and lack of respect for women that, as a substitute of being deterred by what occurred in America, you went on to commit the intense offences for which I’ve to condemn you immediately,” he mentioned.

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Kretteis had been on an evening out along with his teammates when he focused his first sufferer in the early hours of October 13, 2019, exterior the Chatsworth Bar, in Acton, west London.

The 25-year-old was attacked close to a secluded footbridge after she was befriended by Kretteis, who provided to stroll her house.

The second lady, 20, was left with bruising on her face and throat, in addition to chunk marks, after being raped and attacked on December 15, 2019.

The court docket heard how he hit her and grabbed her neck in what the decide described as “essentially the most harmful and traumatic manner for any lady”.

Kretteis was recognized in February final 12 months from the DNA discovered on the jacket his first sufferer had left behind in the battle, which was discovered dumped in a close-by bin.

He claimed he was not the person seen in CCTV footage as a result of he by no means styled his hair in a person bun.

But his Instagram posts matched photos of him on the scene of one of many assaults sporting a Princeton University high.

Kretteis was jailed for 10 years for the primary rape and handed a consecutive eight-year time period for the second, with a five-year interval on prolonged licence, in addition to concurrent sentences of three years and 11 months for the ABH offences and 4 years for making threats to kill.

He will serve a minimum of two-thirds of his sentence earlier than he’s thought-about for launch.

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