Suffolk: Three jailed for rape of 16-year-old

16/05/2011

Three men have been jailed for a total of 32 years for the multiple rape of a 16-year-old girl.

Arturas Bagdziunas, 29, Minddaugas Mickevicius, 32, and Alvaras Urbonas, 25, all formerly of Felixstowe were found guilty at Ipswich Crown Court on Friday, May 13, 2011, of both oral and vaginal rape, offences they had previously denied.

Bagdziunas was also found guilty of anal rape and Mickevicius and Urbonas were cleared of anal rape.

The court heard how the three Lithuanians attacked the teenager at a house in Holland Road, Felixstowe, in the early hours of New Years Day 2010.

Bagdziunas was sentenced to 12 years in prison and gave both Mickevicius and Urbonas jail terms of ten years each.

A fourth defendant, Edgaras Sliburis, 19, of Scotland, who had denied three offences of rape, was acquitted.