Rapist released from jail in error on the run again

RAPIST who held his victim at knifepoint and threatened to ‘kill her is on the run after being accidentally set free from prison.

- TRISTAN KIRK

Bernadin Dedic, 48, from Bosnia, had been drinking and was high on cocaine when he pulled out a knife on the woman, telling her she “wouldn't be heard”.

He cut off the victim's clothes before subjecting her to a series of rapes and sexual assaults in an ordeal which lasted for several hours.

Dedic, a businessman living in Ealing, west London, was remanded in custody last year after being charged with four charges of rape, two counts of sexual assault by penetration, causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, threatening a person with a knife when in a private place, and making a threat to kill.

But in February he was mistakenly set free from HMP Wormwood Scrubs after a court official wrongly told the prison that he had been granted bail.

Within hours, Dedic left the UK on the Eurostar and returned to Bosnia.

The defendant put forward a litany of excuses for not coming back to face justice, including a heart attack and a skiing accident, and he remained in Bosnia as the trial went ahead this month at Isleworth Crown Court.