Locations
Hightown, Waterfoot, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4
Description
A RAPIST who attacked a woman in a house has been jailed.
Preston Crown Court heard Adrian Love, 54, raped the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, at a property in Rossendale in June 2017.
Love had always denied any wrongdoing but was unanimously found guilty by a jury following a two week trial.
Judge James Medland QC sentenced Love, of Hightown, Whitewell Bottom, to six and a half years in prison.
Love was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life and pay a £170 surcharge to fund victim services.
Judge Medland imposed an indefinite restraining order banning Love from contacting his victim directly or indirectly.
A police spokesman said: "We take investigations into rape and sexual assault very seriously.