Anarch
11-18-2005, 12:28 PM
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005530509,00.html
Rape secret of 7/7 victim
http://images.thesun.co.uk/images/trans.gifhttp://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2005530591,00.jpgRape lie ... Garri Holness
By MIKE SULLIVAN,
SIMON HUGHES
and VIRGINIA WHEELER
A VICTIM hailed for his bravery after losing a leg in the 7/7 bombings is a gang rapist who has cynically lied about his shameful past,
The Sun can reveal.
Garri Holness, 38 leader of a campaign for compensation over the London terror outrages took part in a horrific attack on two teenage girls.
When confronted earlier this week about his conviction 20 years ago, he insisted he was later cleared on appeal. That was a LIE.
Yesterday The Sun challenged Holness and he confessed the conviction was NEVER quashed as reported in the Daily Mail.
He admitted misleading the paper, saying: I knew all this was going to come out and I was scared and confused. I told the Daily Mail and they believed me.
I felt under pressure and wanted to nip it in the bud straight away make it go away. I realise that I made a mistake.
Holness, who met PM Tony Blair and Tory leader Michael Howard at a memorial service for the bomb victims, stands to collect £50,000 for the loss of his left leg. Victims of multiple rape get £13,500.
http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2005530592,00.jpgCampaigner ... Holness at No10
Musician Holness was one of a gang of six thugs who pounced on two 16-year-old girls as they walked home from a concert.
The blonde and brunette victims, both privately educated, were bundled into a dank garage at council flats in Brixton, South London.
They were stripped and raped a savage 45 times by the brutes. During their 1½-hour ordeal, a knife was held to the throat of one girl.
Holness 18 at the time and going under the name of Gary Star Linton was one of four monsters convicted of raping both victims.
He was jailed for seven years. The attack sparked public outcry with MPs demanding longer sentences for Holness and his fellow rapists.
Yesterday Holness claimed he tried to stop the rapes a lie he gave during his trial.
He said: Of course I feel for the girls who were attacked all those years ago. I would have loved to sit them down and see how they are doing.
I feel so badly for what those girls went through and what I have gone through. How much more can a person take?
He claimed to have assumed his conviction had been quashed when he was freed from jail after only three years.
But he said he was shocked to discover it was still on his record when he was arrested for burglary three years ago.
Holness was on the Tube train blown up between Russell Square and Kings Cross.
He said: I never asked to be in the public eye by sitting 2ft away from one of the suicide bombers. And Im not a bad person. I have a good heart.
Rape secret of 7/7 victim
http://images.thesun.co.uk/images/trans.gifhttp://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2005530591,00.jpgRape lie ... Garri Holness
By MIKE SULLIVAN,
SIMON HUGHES
and VIRGINIA WHEELER
A VICTIM hailed for his bravery after losing a leg in the 7/7 bombings is a gang rapist who has cynically lied about his shameful past,
The Sun can reveal.
Garri Holness, 38 leader of a campaign for compensation over the London terror outrages took part in a horrific attack on two teenage girls.
When confronted earlier this week about his conviction 20 years ago, he insisted he was later cleared on appeal. That was a LIE.
Yesterday The Sun challenged Holness and he confessed the conviction was NEVER quashed as reported in the Daily Mail.
He admitted misleading the paper, saying: I knew all this was going to come out and I was scared and confused. I told the Daily Mail and they believed me.
I felt under pressure and wanted to nip it in the bud straight away make it go away. I realise that I made a mistake.
Holness, who met PM Tony Blair and Tory leader Michael Howard at a memorial service for the bomb victims, stands to collect £50,000 for the loss of his left leg. Victims of multiple rape get £13,500.
http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2005530592,00.jpgCampaigner ... Holness at No10
Musician Holness was one of a gang of six thugs who pounced on two 16-year-old girls as they walked home from a concert.
The blonde and brunette victims, both privately educated, were bundled into a dank garage at council flats in Brixton, South London.
They were stripped and raped a savage 45 times by the brutes. During their 1½-hour ordeal, a knife was held to the throat of one girl.
Holness 18 at the time and going under the name of Gary Star Linton was one of four monsters convicted of raping both victims.
He was jailed for seven years. The attack sparked public outcry with MPs demanding longer sentences for Holness and his fellow rapists.
Yesterday Holness claimed he tried to stop the rapes a lie he gave during his trial.
He said: Of course I feel for the girls who were attacked all those years ago. I would have loved to sit them down and see how they are doing.
I feel so badly for what those girls went through and what I have gone through. How much more can a person take?
He claimed to have assumed his conviction had been quashed when he was freed from jail after only three years.
But he said he was shocked to discover it was still on his record when he was arrested for burglary three years ago.
Holness was on the Tube train blown up between Russell Square and Kings Cross.
He said: I never asked to be in the public eye by sitting 2ft away from one of the suicide bombers. And Im not a bad person. I have a good heart.