How I had to fight for 20 years to get my rapist jailed: Mother-of-two who was raped eight times in her own home was forced to BEG police to pursue her attacker

Mother-of-two Lynda Donnelly (left and right) said she felt 'ridiculed' and treated 'like a fantasist' by London's Metropolitan Police as she fought to bring her rapist Pierre Bate (inset) to justice. 


The US native attacked her in her own home in July 1996 but ended up back in Los Angeles where he became a music producer and rubbed shoulders with Leonardo Di Caprio at Hollywood Parties. Finally in 2011 the Met's cold case team became involved and eventually found DNA evidence that saw Bate convicted of the crime at Southwark Crown Court earlier this year, where he was jailed for 24 years.