A woman who was raped by a former aide to two Prime Ministers is desperate to stop her attacker being moved to an open prison.
Mark Adams attacked the girl, then 17, in August 2017 as she walked home from a night out at the Edinburgh Festival. He was caged for seven years in March 2019.
Adams - who who worked in Downing Street under John Major and Tony Blair - was also sentenced to seven years imprisonment at Woolwich Crown Court in January of the same year for raping another woman in 2015.
His most recent victim has now launched a petition in a bid to halt his move from a high-security prison to an open jail after being informed his transfer had been approved.
Such a move, she said “would allow him escorted visits outside the prison, leading on to unescorted visits” before eventually being allowed “overnight home stays”.
The woman said: “Mark Adams has not yet served a single day in prison towards ‘my’ sentence.”
She added: “This man is a serial rapist who should not be allowed to move back into the community in any way, shape or form.
“I was a teenager when I was attacked. Mark Adams was 56. He is a danger to young women wherever he goes and should remain in a Category A prison.”
When he was sentenced for raping the teenager in Edinburgh, judge Lord Armstrong said Adams had taken advantage of a “vulnerable” young woman in a “calculating and manipulative manner” as she made her way home alone.
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