Teenager convicted of raping two 16-year-old girls

A ‘twisted’ teenager has been jailed for raping two 16-year-old girls as they both walked home at night.

Nathan John, 19, attacked the girls 19 months and ten miles apart.

John was found guilty of three charges of rape and sexual assault at Swansea Crown Court.

He was sentenced to an extended sentence of twenty years, consisting of sixteen years in a juvenile institution and four years of probation.

The court heard he launched a ‘frenzy of sexual violence’ in the darkness after the girls, who were on their way home from a night out, rejected his advances.

John denied the first rape in October 2022 in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, and the second in Haverfordwest in May 2024.

He met the first girl at Circles nightclub in Milford Haven, where he kissed her, but she “wasn’t interested in anything else”.

But he took her home before throwing her to the ground, taking off his trousers and committing “a rampage of sexual violence”.

John was arrested and told police in an interview that the girl had consented and was released under investigation.

But he was caught when he launched the same attack on another girl nineteen months later.

The victim was out with friends when John offered to walk home together.

He told her, “If you don’t do it, I’m going to kill you.” He then raped her.

John again claimed that the sex was consensual.

Prosecutor James Hartson asked the jury to take into account “the striking similarity between these two allegations, made fifteen miles and nineteen months apart, by two young women who do not know each other.”

“He is a man with a powerful build,” he said.

“When he decided he wanted sex, these two girls – isolated and alone – didn’t stand a chance.

“This young man won’t take no for an answer.”

John was further charged with two offenses of making indecent images of children: a category B and a category C image and possessing an extreme pornographic image between July and September last year.

Judge Huw Rees told him: ‘These are undoubtedly serious crimes. Two crimes that contain characteristics of humiliation and violence.

“Both were 16 years old. Both were lured into isolation.

“You humiliated both of these girls and in the process you humiliated yourself as a human being,” he said.

‘You have a warped interest in sex.

“I can tell right away that you pose a danger to young girls and young women.”

John must register as a sex offender for life. Both victims received a lifetime restraining order against him.