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| Barry Rosedale jailed for life for Flintshire sex attacks | Barry Rosedale jailed for life for Flintshire sex attacks |
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| A man who attacked three women - including one who was pregnant - with the intention of abducting and raping them has been jailed for life. | |
| Barry Rosedale, 43, from Queensferry, Flintshire, stalked the women with a knife, a gag for their mouths and laces to tie them up. | |
| He admitted attempted rape, sexual assault and robbery. | He admitted attempted rape, sexual assault and robbery. |
| Judge Niclas Parry at Mold Crown Court said Rosedale was "the worst nightmare" of any woman walking alone at night. | |
| The court heard Rosedale's "campaign of terror" lasted three months from last January. | The court heard Rosedale's "campaign of terror" lasted three months from last January. |
| Each of his victims was able to fight him off or talk to him and calm him down, the court heard. | Each of his victims was able to fight him off or talk to him and calm him down, the court heard. |
| One woman was later able to identify Rosedale from Facebook. | One woman was later able to identify Rosedale from Facebook. |
| The sentencing on Wednesday heard that Rosedale had fantasies about raping women and was jailed in 2005 for trying to kidnap a young woman at a bus stop. | |
| After his latest arrest, he told police he planned to rob, rape or kill his first victim, a 16-year-old girl who was walking home alone in January 2013. | |
| After Rosedale grabbed her from behind, the girl begged him to let her go then shouted for help when she saw a man she knew, forcing the defendant to run. | |
| The girl was later able to identify Rosedale from Facebook. | |
| The pregnant woman was his second victim, in April last year. She was attacked as she walked over the Queensferry flyover. | |
| She tried to ring 999 but Rosedale grabbed her phone. During a struggle she realised he had a knife. | |
| She told him she was pregnant and Rosedale replied that he would take her sister, before running away with her purse. | |
| Days later Rosedale attacked another woman from behind on the same flyover and put her in headlock before sexually assaulting her and threatening to rape her. | |
| Rosedale dropped his knife and the woman was able to throw it over the bridge before kicking him. | |
| 'Predatory and premeditated' | |
| He was arrested that night and police found him carrying tights, underwear, a nightdress and black shoe laces. | |
| John Philpotts, defending, said: "He has an insight into the danger he poses to females." | |
| He said his client would co-operate with programmes while in custody. | |
| Judge Parry told him: "You are a highly dangerous man who intended to commit far worse offences than were committed. | |
| "Your intention was to abduct them in order to rape them or commit serious sexual offences against them. | |
| "Your behaviour is predatory and premeditated." |