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Deaf rapist who could 'feel' his victim's rage is jailed for five years | Mail Online
A deaf man was jailed for rape yesterday after admitting that he could ‘feel’ his victim’s anger despite claiming that he did not hear her shouting ‘No’.
Justin Rixon, who has been profoundly deaf and mute from birth, had denied raping a friend with whom he had fallen out and insisted he would have stopped if she had said she didn’t want to have sex.
But, communicating in court by sign language through interpreters, he admitted he could ‘feel the vibrations’ of his victim’s angry shouts during the attack.
Rixon, 41, was already a convicted sex offender when he carried out the assault, but had previously been shown leniency because of his disability.
In 2003 Rixon – a volunteer with a children’s charity – had been caught with a hoard of child pornography on four computers in his Cardiff home following an FBI sweep against internet sex criminals.
On that occasion he was set free when a judge took pity on him being ‘trapped in a world of silence’.
But yesterday he was jailed for five years after a jury found him guilty of rape.
Rixon, who until recently was seeking lovers on the internet and has on his Facebook page a photograph of himself posing between two scantily-clad barmaids from a branch of the Hooters chain, had threatened suicide after being charged with the rape.
He caused huge tailbacks across Cardiff by running to a bridge over a busy road and threatening to hang himself over the edge, before being talked down.
Cardiff Crown Court heard that Rixon had fallen into dispute with a female friend who became upset after reading on his phone text messages he had sent to another woman.
Giving evidence, unemployed Rixon told the jury he had gone to the friend’s house to discuss the texts after she called him a liar and a cheat on Facebook.
His victim told the court over a video link he had forced himself on her when she told him she wanted nothing to do with him.
Rixon admitted she had not said she wanted sex, but claimed she had not said ‘No’ either.
He insisted: ‘If she had said she didn’t want to, I would have stopped.’ But he admitted: ‘She was so angry I could feel the vibrations of her shouting.
She told me she would report me to the police.’
Caroline Rees, prosecuting, said that during the rape inquiry Rixon’s computer was seized and was found to contain extreme pornography and indecent images of children.
Judge Christopher Llewellyn-Jones, QC, said: ‘You were convicted on the plainest of evidence. You wouldn’t take “No” for an answer.’
As well as jailing Rixon, the judge put him on the sex offenders’ register for life, and banned him from ever working with children again.
Eight years ago Rixon appeared before Cardiff Crown Court after being caught in the FBI’s Operation Ore investigation into internet paedophiles across the world.
He pleaded guilty to possessing indecent photographs. But after his barrister claimed he was ‘trapped in a world of silence’ and would be ‘crushed’ by prison, Judge John Griffith Williams gave him a two-year community rehabilitation order.
But he refused to ban Rixon from working with children, because ‘there is no risk of any offending by you being directed to children’.
A deaf man was jailed for rape yesterday after admitting that he could ‘feel’ his victim’s anger despite claiming that he did not hear her shouting ‘No’.
Justin Rixon, who has been profoundly deaf and mute from birth, had denied raping a friend with whom he had fallen out and insisted he would have stopped if she had said she didn’t want to have sex.
But, communicating in court by sign language through interpreters, he admitted he could ‘feel the vibrations’ of his victim’s angry shouts during the attack.
Rixon, 41, was already a convicted sex offender when he carried out the assault, but had previously been shown leniency because of his disability.
In 2003 Rixon – a volunteer with a children’s charity – had been caught with a hoard of child pornography on four computers in his Cardiff home following an FBI sweep against internet sex criminals.
On that occasion he was set free when a judge took pity on him being ‘trapped in a world of silence’.
But yesterday he was jailed for five years after a jury found him guilty of rape.
Rixon, who until recently was seeking lovers on the internet and has on his Facebook page a photograph of himself posing between two scantily-clad barmaids from a branch of the Hooters chain, had threatened suicide after being charged with the rape.
He caused huge tailbacks across Cardiff by running to a bridge over a busy road and threatening to hang himself over the edge, before being talked down.
Cardiff Crown Court heard that Rixon had fallen into dispute with a female friend who became upset after reading on his phone text messages he had sent to another woman.
Giving evidence, unemployed Rixon told the jury he had gone to the friend’s house to discuss the texts after she called him a liar and a cheat on Facebook.
His victim told the court over a video link he had forced himself on her when she told him she wanted nothing to do with him.
Rixon admitted she had not said she wanted sex, but claimed she had not said ‘No’ either.
He insisted: ‘If she had said she didn’t want to, I would have stopped.’ But he admitted: ‘She was so angry I could feel the vibrations of her shouting.
She told me she would report me to the police.’
Caroline Rees, prosecuting, said that during the rape inquiry Rixon’s computer was seized and was found to contain extreme pornography and indecent images of children.
Judge Christopher Llewellyn-Jones, QC, said: ‘You were convicted on the plainest of evidence. You wouldn’t take “No” for an answer.’
As well as jailing Rixon, the judge put him on the sex offenders’ register for life, and banned him from ever working with children again.
Eight years ago Rixon appeared before Cardiff Crown Court after being caught in the FBI’s Operation Ore investigation into internet paedophiles across the world.
He pleaded guilty to possessing indecent photographs. But after his barrister claimed he was ‘trapped in a world of silence’ and would be ‘crushed’ by prison, Judge John Griffith Williams gave him a two-year community rehabilitation order.
But he refused to ban Rixon from working with children, because ‘there is no risk of any offending by you being directed to children’.
