Submariner jailed for seven years for rape attempt in house

A NUCLEAR submariner who forced his way into a woman’s house and tried to rape her while her teenage son cowered in his bedroom has been jailed for seven years.

Aisea Yaranamua, a Royal Navy crewman and father-of-four, targeted his 50-year-old victim after she spurned his advances in a pub in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire.

The 35-year-old then followed the mother-of-two home after she rejected him and brutally attacked her.

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Sentencing Yaranamua at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday, Lord Uist said: “You were convicted by a jury of having committed the crime of attempted rape of a woman in her own home in Helensburgh on 5 November 2010.

“You saw her in a pub in the course of the evening, targeted her, followed her home, forced your way into her house, pushed her into a bedroom where you attacked her by removing her clothing and subjecting her to sexual indignity and humiliation before attempting to have intercourse with her.

“The reason why you did not succeed in having intercourse with her was that the police arrived in response to her 999 call for help made when she had gone to the bathroom in the course of the incident.

“This was a determined, brazen and shameless crime which amounted to a terrifying ordeal for your victim.”

He said the woman had suffered multiple bruises in the attack and had been left in a state of great distress.

The court previously heard that when Yaranamua, an engineering technician whose vessel was docked at Faslane on the Clyde, forced his way into her home, the terrified woman realised her 15-year-old son was in the house.

Fearing that Yaranamua might hurt him, she managed to call 999 on her mobile.

Police arrived to find the Royal Navy submariner hiding behind a door.