'Harry Potter' Rapist Alexander Meyer Jailed for Attacking 13 Year Old Girl

A fancy dress rapist decked out as Harry Potter was today jailed for seven and a half years for attacking a 13-year-old girl with learning disabilities.

Alexander Meyer, 25, spent the day before the rape viewing child porn on his computer.

And on 4 July this year he travelled from his home in Church Road, Sandford on Thames, Oxfordshire, to a fancy dress weekend festival at his former home town of Llanidloes, Powys.

Meyer, a catalogue telephone worker, was dressed bizarrely in a red dressing gown, slippers and glasses when he swooped on the victim after she lost her friends in the town.

"It was her misfortune to come across Alexander Meyer," said Rhys Rowlands, prosecuting at Mold Crown Court today.

"She explained she had lost her friends and the defendant offered to help her.

"She believed what he had said.

The paedophile then threatened to kill the girl - claiming he had a knife and would press it against her throat if she made a sound.

Meyer indecently assaulted the girl but was disturbed by a couple walking nearby.

The defendant apologised to the girl but continued the attack - moving her to a shed where he sexually assaulted her.

Mr Rowlands said: "This was clearly an appalling ordeal he subjected her to.

"It was a sustained attack - she was with him in all for about 30 minutes."

The victim's worried father was phoning her during the attack but Meyer switched off the mobile and only returned it to her when she promised not to tell anyone what happened.

Meyer was arrested the next day and he refused to answer detectives' questions.

His laptop was studied and contained 44 still images and three films of child abuse.

Meyer also admitted eight counts of possessing indecent images of children.

The teenager's mother told police: "This has been every mother's worst nightmare."