A TEACHER is facing jail after being found guilty of raping a young girl and attempting to rape a woman.
Jerome Uche, of Deynecourt Gardens, Wanstead, is accused of attacking a 15-year-old girl who came from Germany to stay at his family home over Easter 1995.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard the 48-year-old abused the terrified girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, as she slept in the bottom bunk of her bed while his own children slept in the bunk above.
On one occasion Uche raped the Nigerian-born victim on his living room floor while watching a pornographic film when his family was out of the house.
Then the father-of-four took her to a friend’s flat where he got her drunk on Bailey’s and then raped her again.
Uche was also found guilty of sexually assaulting another woman at his home in October 1995 and attempting to rape her.
In total Uche was convicted of six counts, the indecent assault of a child under 16, inciting a child to commit an act of gross indecency and two counts of rape of a child under 16.
He was also found guilty of one count of indecent assault on a woman, and the attempted rape of a woman.
Uche will be sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on October 31.
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