 A serial sex attacker who raped a woman in a graveyard when she walked home from a night out has been jailed. Convicted rapist Cosmin-Nicolae Vasioiu, 47, was prowling the streets of Exeter last June with the intent of finding a lone woman, Exeter Crown Court heard. The Romanian national attacked the woman in the grounds of St Bartholomew's Cemetery. When she tried to fight him off, he stripped her naked and raped her. Vasioiu only stopped when she started screaming and nearby neighbours were alerted. Vasioiu had come to Britain after serving a prison sentence for a near-identical rape of an 18-year-old woman in Switzerland in 2014. He remained in the UK after Brexit but did not apply for EU settled status, which meant his previous convictions were not flagged to the authorities. When he carried out this latest sex attack, Vasioiu was living in a garden shed and doing gardening work. Following the attack, he shaved off his beard and hair and got a friend to wash his clothes and shoes. The jury at Exeter Crown Court found Vasioiu guilty (Picture: PA) Felicity Payne, prosecuting, told the court the offence was planned and had been committed while Vasioiu was the subject of a community order for theft and assault. 'The prosecution say, and put their case in this way during the trial, that he was trawling the city centre seeking to identify targets for sexual assault,' she said. 'He did just that when he identified the victim. At that point in time, she was significantly worse for wear due to intoxication. 'He was captured on CCTV following the victim and altering his course, crossing the road, and his pace is seen to quicken as he follows her. 'The victim made efforts to fight the defendant but was unable to resist. She ultimately began to scream for help and the defendant ran off. 'When she was located she was naked and her clothing strewn about the cemetery.' Vasi){kind=link}
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A serial sex attacker who raped a woman in a graveyard when she walked home from a night out has been jailed.
Convicted rapist Cosmin-Nicolae Vasioiu, 47, was prowling the streets of Exeter last June with the intent of finding a lone woman, Exeter Crown Court heard.
The Romanian national attacked the woman in the grounds of St Bartholomew’s Cemetery.
When she tried to fight him off, he stripped her naked and raped her. Vasioiu only stopped when she started screaming and nearby neighbours were alerted.