A drug-dealing woman and her boyfriend ‘punished’ a teenage girl by raping her after they mistakenly thought she had stolen from them.
Elizabeth Seagrove and Matthew Costello, now jailed for more than 20 years, wanted to punish the girl thinking she stole £100 from them.
They drove the girl in the middle of the night for more than an hour before taking her to a deserted place.
Seagrove, 40, then ordered her to strip and held her hair as she instructed Costello to violate the 18-year-old. They also gave her drugs to reduce the pain.
After they committed the crime and returned home did they realise that the money was stolen by someone else.
Seagrove and Costello,31, when charged denied carrying out the attack at a fly-tipping site near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
The pair drove from Seagrove’s home in North Iver, Buckinghamshire, and were picked up on CCTV at various points in the ensuing hour or more, in Beaconsfield, Chalfont St Peter, and Amersham.
A petrol station camera recorded the victim in her dressing gown, only being allowed away from the car in Costello’s presence.
The scene of the rape – a lay-by and popular fly-tipping spot – had indeed been identified by the victim’s stepfather, going on information she had given him and talking to friends he knew at the local county council.
Costello, of Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, was jailed for nine years and four months for rape.
Neither showed any emotion as they were led away, They were convicted by a jury after a tria