Woman Tells Would-Be Rapist ‘Go F*** Yourself!’ As He Attacks — Then Subdues Him In Sleeper Hold


Mark Willis, who was convicted of sexual assault Tuesday by a jury in Gloucester, England, was told he “bit off slightly more than he could chew” by a judge who was so impressed with the way Willis’s intended victim fought back, he gave the 25-year-old woman a £500 — about $775 — reward.

Willis attacked the woman, whose name was not released, at about 2 a.m. last August 31 as she walked home on a quiet road in the southwest English town of Cheltenham — not realizing that he’d singled out a student of jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts as his victim.

Despite launching a vicious assault on the young woman, Willis ended up in a leg-scissor sleeper hold before giving up and running away.

According to the victim’s testimony, he pinned her to the ground, savagely punching her in the face and ordering her, “Be quiet and do as I tell you and you won’t get hurt.”

But rather than just submit to the assault, the aspiring Ronda Rousey told the would-be rapist, “Go f*** yourself!”

He hit her in the face again and began trying to rip her clothes off, but the woman refused to be a victim and mounted a spirited counterattack of her own — wriggling free and placing the man in an arm bar.

“The intention is to send the elbow in the wrong direction and cause extreme pain or a break,” she told the spellbound jury. “I was not able to do that. I think he figured out what I was trying to do because he managed to wriggle free and he hit me again repeatedly in the face.”

But Willis (pictured above) made the mistake of leaving the woman’s legs free as he continued striking her and attempting to tear her clothing.

“I lifted my left leg up onto his shoulder and around the back of his neck. I crossed my right leg over and squeezed together as hard as I could. He seemed to struggle for air – which was the point!’ she explained.

Willis managed to hit her again, but she said that she closed her eyes and squeezed her legs together around the man’s neck as hard as she could — until she felt his body go limp.

The attacker quickly regained consciousness, but he’d taken all he could take. The intended victim heard him running away in the dark, but police soon picked him up and matched his DNA to samples taken from the crotch of the woman’s pants and her hands.

Willis had a previous frightening attack on his record, when he assaulted a young couple, knocking the man to the ground and attempting to drag the man’s female companion into a van.

“I have no doubt whatever that if she had not done what she did she would have suffered a considerably graver ordeal than she did,” the judge told the jury after they read their guilty verdict. “She deserves everyone’s commendation for the way she has dealt with this and she certainly gets the highest commendation from me.”

As for the would-be rapist, he claimed he admitted attacking the woman, but claimed that he was angry that she had supposedly photographed him urinating in public, and that he did not intend to sexually assault her.

[Image via Daily Mirror]

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