Rapist's sentence upheld

A man who raped a woman in a five-hour ordeal did not get a day too long in jail, a judge has ruled.

Paul Morgan was jailed for nine years in January after attacking a woman in her Exeter home.

Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolfe, sitting at London's Court of Appeal was told that Morgan, 32, was not given enough credit for his guilty plea.

But the judge said the case involved a number of aggravating features and the victim was subjected to "considerable humiliated and degradation" and no cut in sentence was justified.

Note book

Morgan struck in the Easter of 2001, waking his victim in the middle of the night and holding a knife to her cheek and forcing her to go downstairs.

There he raped her, and assaulted her.

Police found a note book at the scene in which Morgan had written what he planned to do the the woman.

"Morgan had written in this note-book a detailed attack on a victim which included humiliating and raping her before breaking her neck and making it look like an accident", said the Lord Chief Justice.

Plea change

"The writing was entitled 'The rape and humiliation of the package ending in death'."

Morgan initially claimed his victim consented.

However, he changed his plea to guilty shortly before trail.

Morgan's case was heard with two others by the Lord Chief Justice in order to create sentencing guidelines in date-rape and relationship rape case.