Ex-School Governor Gets Thirteen Years For Raping Young Girl

A former school governor, who the probation service say has a "high likelihood" of re-offending, has received thirteen years imprisonment for twice raping a 10 year-old girl.

Seemingly respectable Malcolm Greenaway, 68, an IT management consultant, struck at his £475,000 suburban home, where his wife had endured years of violence.

"These vile and unnatural acts were perpetrated by you against a wholly innocent child, you utterly stole her innocence," Croydon Crown Court Recorder John Gallagher told him.

Greenaway, of Stanley Park Road, Carshalton Beeches pleaded guilty to two counts of raping the girl between December 6, 2008 and December 5, 2010.

He must serve eight years and eight months before he can be considered for parole and then spend an additional five years on licence when the sentence expires.

Greenaway was a governor at Wallington High School for Girls between 1988 and 1997 and at Stanley Park Infants and Junior schools between1922 and 1988. 

"You pose a significant risk of serious harm. I suspect you are devious and manipulative and know how to work the system.

"You used and abused her sexually for your perverted lusts and feelings and groomed her into believing no one would believe her and as a result she sit this away for years."

The victim revealed to a schoolteacher in 2014 that she had been raped by Greenaway, who called her into his bedroom saying: "I need a hug."

When interviewed by police the girl could not bring herself to utter the words and instead wrote on a piece of paper: "He raped me."

Greenway told the youngster it would be their "little secret" and convinced her she would not be believed if she reported him.

He again raped her in his bedroom on a second occasion, after which the victim threw up.

She has since suffered panic attacks, suffered weight-loss, post-traumatic stress disorder and was hospitalised after taking an overdose.

The rapes were reported while Greenaway was serving a three years and nine months sentence for inciting two girls, aged thirteen and fifteen, to engage in sexual activity.

A probation report described the defendant as "controlling and dominant" and prone to "explosive anger."

"It's a great shame you felt no feelings for her except your unnatural and perverted feelings," Recorder Gallagher told him.