The judge hits the police errors that left the Bulgarian Viorator free to attack a terrified teenager, since he is imprisoned for life by a brutal sexual attack

A judge has criticized police failures, which meant that a Bulgarian rapist was not locked up, leaving him free to launch a brutal attack against another terrified victim.

Mariyan Grudev pounced on a young woman when she separated from her friends after a Christmas night in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2019.

But although the police suspect that Grudev, who already had previous convictions for sexual attacks in Bulgaria, including a woman who threatened to kill, and the DNA linked him to the attack, could return to his homeland.

A European arrest warrant was not issued, and returned to Cheshire, where in 2023 he stalked a teenager before grabbing her and trying to drag her to bushes to rape her.

Fortunately, she bravely managed to fight him and ran to get help. He was later recognized by labor colleagues after the police shared CCTV images.

Callous Grudev, marked with “a complete and absolute coward” of his first victim, nodded and seemed to smile when he was imprisoned yesterday for life after being convicted of raping her.

Judging the 39 -year -old at the Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Neil Flewitt KC said that if a European arrest warrant had been issued, Grudev had probable, Grudev had been seized and linked to rape through DNA.

Therefore, I would not have been able to attack the teenager.

Mariyan Grudev pounced on a young woman when she separated from her friends after a Christmas night in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2019.

“That is a significant failure of those responsible for the investigation,” he said.

“I hope a lesson of that supervision has been learned so that there is no such failure in any future research.”

Cheshire police now apologized for the ‘lost opportunities’ that allowed the dangerous ‘sexual predator’ to remain free.

Grudev was convicted of sexually assaulting a 16 -year -old girl in her native Bulgaria in 2006, after warning her “if you shout, I will become really bad.”

In 2013 he raped a woman while holding her for her wrists.

Later that year, he followed another victim’s house in the early hours, placing his hand on his mouth to avoid shouting and sexually assaulting her, warning: ‘If you hit you, you will die here.’

After moving to England, Grudev went to a woman in the early hours of December 22, 2019 after she separated from her friends on one night in Warrington.

He had been drinking, but he remembered a man with a Bulgarian accent asking him to return home.

Judge Neil Flewitt Kc (in the photo) criticized police failures, which meant that the Bulgarian Grudev beast was free to rape a young woman

The next thing he recalled was when they raped her, and her parents had to track her using a Find My Friends application on her phone.

The tests the next day found Grudev’s DNA, but then returned to Bulgaria, where he was still a free man.

As a result, he was able to return to the United Kingdom, where in the early hours of July 29, 2023 he went to a teenager who walked barefoot through Warrington after one night.

With his mobile phone he had been free of charge, he saw the defendant behind her. Grudev put his arm before covering his mouth and force her to a bush.

He was bravely defended and “ran for his life” to a nearby Tesco store where a taxi driver called 999.

Grudev was identified by a former work colleague after the police issued CCTV images.

“His mobile phone was seized and his Internet search history was shown in the hours prior to the crime he had repeatedly visited pornography and escort websites,” said Eve Salter, rinse.

When the forensic evidence that linked him to the 2019 violation was treated, he replied: ‘Try it.

In an impact statement of the victim that she gave herself, the rape victim told how she still suffers panic attacks and had almost renounced her career due to psychological impact.

In the photo there is an archive image of Liverpool Crown Court

Then he went directly to Grudev and said: “You are a complete and absolute coward, who clearly shows no empathy for others or the responsibility of your actions.”

The arrogance that has demonstrated throughout this process demonstrates how little he thinks of women, and how you your sole purpose is to be victims of your depraved and twisted sexual gratification.

‘It is clear that the only way in which it can feel significant in this world is to have control and power over women in its most vulnerable form.

‘However, today I stay here to tell you that, while for a little time you had power over me, you don’t do it anymore.

“You are a paragraph in a small chapter of my life, a full and happy life and it is something you could never take away.”

The other victim told how he also suffers panic attacks and is afraid to go to his car in the dark.

John Weate, defending, said that the defendant, who has no other sentences in the United Kingdom, still denies the crime of rape.

However, he declared himself guilty of trying to violate the 2023 attack.

Judge Flewitt told Grudev, from Latchford, Cheshire, who agreed with a probation report that described him as ‘a sexual predator’. It imposed a minimum period of 14 years, except the 555 days that has passed in preventive detention.

But the judge added: “I cannot foresee a moment when I no longer represent a danger to the public.”

It is anticipated that Grudev will be deported when, and if he is ever released.

Grudev will have to sign the record of sexual criminals for life. After the chief inspector Robert McLoughlin, from the Cheshire Police, said: “First, we would like to congratulate the courage of the two victims in this case when presenting and informing what happened to them.

“We hope that Grudev’s prayer today provides you with a sense of closing, with the knowledge that will be behind bars for a considerable period of time.”

Accept faults occurred, he added: “We recognize that there were lost opportunities during 2019 and we have apologized to the victim for these.”

‘Since then a complete internal review has been carried out, and although there was no misconduct, organizational learning areas were identified and have been carried out.

“Throughout this process we have been in dialogue with the victims and our thoughts remain with them at this time.”