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New Year's Day rapist to be sentenced

A man who admitted raping a woman near Mutley on new year's day will be sentenced today. 

The woman was attacked in College Lane near Mutley in the early hours of January the first.

23 year old Michael Andrade de Souza pleaded guilty to three counts of rape when he appeared before Plymouth Crown court in February.

The Judge order a psychiatric report to be done before he could be sentenced and he was remanded in custody.

De Souza will be sentenced in court later this morning.

The maximum sentence for rape is life imprisonment.

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