“A family that rapes together stays together”. The Cambridge Rapist sister, Jamie-Lee Fox, and cousin, Matthew Fox, of a convicted rapist have been sentenced to imprisonment for obstructing justice by attempting to persuade the victim to alter her testimony.
Matthew Fox, 33, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday, October 4, after being convicted of raping a woman outside a car park in Peterborough city centre.
Today (Wednesday), his sister, Jamie-Lee Fox, aged 37, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, while his cousin, Alfie Smith, aged 27, received a sentence of three and a half years.
Fox’s mother, Alison Quinn-Gajdur, 58, was also found guilty of obstructing justice but received a suspended sentence, so avoiding imprisonment.
Law enforcement apprehended Matthew Fox as he descended from the unconscious victim, who was lying on the ground, in the early hours of 22 July 2022.
CCTV operators had been monitoring the pair as they left a nearby bar and alerted police after becoming concerned for the woman’s welfare, believing her to be highly intoxicated.
Traffic officers found the pair at the top of a ramp to a car park in Cattle Market Road, with Fox climbing off the woman who was laid unresponsive on the ground.
An ambulance was called who took the woman to hospital where she regained consciousness several hours later, and Fox was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.
He denied a charge of rape but a jury unanimously found him guilty following a trial at Cambridge Crown Court earlier this year.
The court heard how the pair were not known to each other but had met whilst drinking in a bar and leaving together.
In police interview, Fox said they began kissing in the bar before starting to walk to his car and having consensual sex in a doorway a few times.
They continued walking when she tripped and fell, so he picked her up and carried her along Cattle Market Way where they again had consensual sex. However, when police arrived, the woman was unresponsive.
Fox, of Stumpacre, Bretton, Peterborough, appeared at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday (4 October) where he was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
He was also sentenced for perverting the course of justice, after admitting the offence alongside his three family members.
After Fox’s charge and remand in prison for rape, police discovered how he had been in contact with the trio, requesting them to contact the victim on his behalf so she would “realise how serious this was” and she would “give an accurate statement”.
The victim received multiple calls to her mobile from an unknown number, later found to be Smith, trying to intimidate her into changing her account to police, while Jamie-Lee Fox sent the woman messages via Facebook and Quinn-Gajdur assisted with contacting the victim and would provide updates to her son in prison.
Today, Smith, of Black Prince Avenue, Market Deeping, Peterborough, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison, while Jamie-Lee Fox, of Cleve Place, Eye, Peterborough, was jailed for two years and eight months and Quinn-Gajdur, of Stumpacre, Bretton, Peterborough, was sentenced to 16 months in prison, suspended for 18 months.
Detective Constable Abbie McQuaid, who investigated, said: “Fox took advantage of the woman being intoxicated. She was in no position to consent to sexual activity and required medical assistance.
“We have been working closely with businesses and partner agencies across the county to identify predatory behaviour and safeguard women and girls.
“Thanks to CCTV operators who were concerned about what they saw, our officers were alerted and were able to intervene.
“Anyone found to be interfering with an investigation and trying to pervert the course of justice will be dealt with robustly.”
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