A Gateshead rapist, Bobby Barclay, who assaulted two alone women on the same night has been reincarcerated six months after his parole.
Bobby Barclay was merely 17 years old when he perpetrated two severe sexual assaults within a two-hour interval on the streets of Newcastle. In the initial crime, he assaulted a 52-year-old unconscious woman in a Gosforth back alley.
A adolescent, formerly of Gateshead, pursued a 25-year-old woman from Newcastle city centre, menaced her with a knife, and subsequently raped her violently at Exhibition Park.
Bobby Barclay perpetrated the charges in June 2015 subsequent to consuming alcohol and utilising legal stimulants. He confessed to rape, sexual assault, and theft, resulting in a sentence of seven years and three months in a young offender institution, along with an extended licence until 2028.
Teesside Crown Court heard on Monday morning how he was released on licence in October last year, placed on probation in the Cleveland area and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order and notification requirements.
Bobby Barclay, now 25, had registered a mobile phone with police and told them that he used the alias ‘GeordieBobby’ for his Facebook and Instagram accounts.
However, during a visit January this year, an officer seized a new mobile phone which he had been using. They discovered he had been using TikTok under the name ‘Bobbybarc’ and Snapchat under the name ‘Bobby_B22815’.
Jenny Hague, prosecuting, told the court in Middlesbrough: “Neither of these had been registered with the police, which he was required to do.
“When the officer attended and went to speak to him in respect of that he was in the process of donning a rucksack and intending to abscond because he thought he was about to be recalled by probation.”
Bobby Barclay, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching the terms of a notification requirement.
Gary Wood, defending, told the court how he had pleaded guilty during the first hearing at magistrates’ court. He said the crimes he committed were not “sophisticated” and that the names were not particularly “discreet”.
Mr Wood added: “There’s nothing more sinister that’s come about as a result of the investigation.”
Recorder Aisha Wadoodi told Bobby Barclay, who appeared in court via a video link to HMP Durham, that he had received a “very considerable sentence” in 2015 for sexual offences.
She said: “You were released on licence in October 22. There were conditions and terms imposed. You clearly understood them because you registered your phone.”
She sentenced Bobby Barclay, previously of Edgeware Road, Deckham, to 12 months behind bars.
Chronicle Live previously reported in 2015 how Bobby Barclay’s first victim, a professional 52-year-old lady, had been out socialising and was walking home around 12.15am when he struck in an alleyway in Gosforth.
Newcastle Crown Court heard how she had no memory of the attack and was found unconscious on the ground by two women passing by. Prosecutors said they couldn’t prove whether Bobby Barclay took her to the ground and knocked her out or abused her after finding her unconscious.
Bobby Barclay carried out the even more serious attack on the 25-year-old as she left the city centre after a night out at around 2am. A taxi driver spotted him following the woman as she headed past the Haymarket and up towards the Central Motorway and Barclay hid in bushes as the cabbie tried to raise the alarm.
But as the woman got inside the entrance of Exhibition Park, just off Claremont Road, she was attacked. The woman tried giving Bobby Barclay money in the hope he would leave her alone but he wouldn’t stop.
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