Woman spotted her rapist and 'took matters into her own hands'

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A woman who recognised her rapist "took matters into her own hands" in order to bring him to justice. Sick Kevin Knox spiked his victim's drink with sleeping tablets before sexually abusing her at her home.

Months later, the 33-year-old attempted to attack her again in an almost identical manner. The quick-thinking complainant rumbled his depraved plot and swapped their drinks around, meaning that he "ended up essentially drugging himself".A trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard that Knox raped the woman in August last year before returning to her flat for a second time three months later, leading to an incident which saw him break into the address and steal a kitchen knife.

Gareth Roberts, prosecuting, described the "strange circumstances of the case", with the victim having been "supplementing her income" by working as an escort at the time - the Liverpool Echo reports.

The court heard Knox, of Maplewood in Kirkby, initially met her as a "potential client" via the website AdultWork. They were said to have "come to an arrangement that he would pay her a sum of money in return for sex", namely £1,750, but he "had no intention of paying".