Following release from a secure hospital, London Paedophile Louis Collins has been imprisoned for life with a minimum term of more than 11 years for “a campaign of rape and attempted rape”.
After leaving Lambeth Hospital in south London, where he had been housed following past sexual assaults, Louis Collins perpetrated the crimes, which comprised three separate women between August 18 and 21 last year being raped or attempted rape.
After attacking eight women over four days in London last summer, the 29-year-old was sentenced to life at Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday, with a minimum term of 11 years, five months and 26 days.
Among other crimes, Louis Collins tried to rape a lady he followed off a bus, followed another woman home and tried to rape her inside her building and raped at knifepoint a woman exercising alone in a park.
He was under consideration for release back into the community while he committed the charges under a hospital order on approved day release.
Saying Louis Collins had been “getting 12 ecstasy tablets each fortnight” and that he was consuming cannabis. At the same time, at Lambeth Hospital, a judge declared he was not unwell when he committed the charges.
Of no fixed address, Louis Collins was also subject to a sexual harm prevention order at the time of the offences, which forbade him from “approaching, deliberately following, speaking or communicating with any females unknown to you in public”.
Judge Simon Heptonstall warned Louis Collins in his sentencing comments: “Your behaviour was the stuff of nightmares for all women and their families.
With some less serious but far from minor acts, there was a campaign of rape and attempted rape over a limited period against several victims.
The crimes included the August 21 last year rape of a lady jogging alone in Marble Hill Park in Twickenham, south-west London.
Holding a knife to her neck and warning her he would stab and kill her if she shouted, Collins punched then kidnapped the victim.
The victim “does not feel safe anymore,” Judge Heptonstall stated, “is hyper-vigilant.”
He said: “She cannot go out alone; her house seems to be a jail. She cannot work in the same manner. She still gets haunted by your attack.
She is resolved to struggle to reclaim her life and rejects being defined by what you did to her.
Following his passage of the barriers at 9.40 am on August 21, Louis Collins was arrested at Richmond railway station within half an hour of the victim coming home and requesting assistance.
Police officials brought Louis Collins back to Lambeth Hospital, where he was arrested at 9 pm that day in connection to the rape.
On August 18, Collins also committed other charges, including sexual assault of a woman on an escalator at Clapham Common Underground station.
Collins followed a woman home in the City of London on 20 August, forced entrance to her building and tried to rape her.
Following a woman off a bus at Willesden Green the following day, he pursued her and punched her, trying to rape her; the incident stopped when someone arrived carrying a baseball bat.
Telling another woman he followed off a bus, “I will slash you,” he sexually attacked her on August 21.
When Louis Collins committed the crimes, he was on day release from Lambeth Hospital in southwest London.
Judge Heptonstall said Louis Collins had “established a pattern of sexual offending since 2015,” including November 2019’s McDonald’s sexual assault on a 14-year-old customer.
Those attacks resulted in a hospital order issued on April 3, 2020, to Collins at Kingston Crown Court.
Previously diagnosed with hebephrenic schizophrenia, the judge said Louis Collins had taken drugs since he was twelve, first on cannabis and then ketamine and cocaine in 2019.
Approaching Louis Collins, who flashed a thumbs-up as he exited the pier, he said: “You were using narcotics at the time of these offences. During your hospital stay, you had been obtaining twelve ecstasy tablets every two weeks. You were smoking cannabis.
“Your earlier in the year reduction in leave had worsened the voices.” They were instructing you on having sex with a female and raping one. You did not talk to the staff about this.
Since Louis Collins is already in custody and “clearly must go to prison,” Judge Heptonstall stated that the fact that there is “minimal capacity in prisons at present” had “minimal” bearing on sentencing.
He said Louis Collins runs “not just a significant but a very high risk” for committing more sexual offences.
Louis Collins received sentences for rape, attempted rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault, kidnapping and offences with intent to commit a sexual crime, and trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence.
He was also convicted for actual bodily harm, strangling, threatening with a blade and with an offensive weapon, outraging public morals, and threatening to kill.
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