By Grâçia Ada Obi
A serial sex attacker who raped two women and attempted to rape a teenage girl has been jailed for 24 years.
The latest of Alex King’s attacks took place in September 2023 when a teenage girl was attacked by King after he offered to help after the car she was travelling in had broken down.
The now 27-year-old told his victim that he was going to take her back to her home – instead he subjected her to a terrifying series of rapes and threatened to kill her.
He eventually let the teenager out of the car and she managed to flag down a member of the public who called police.
But in a bizarre set of circumstances King rang Police a short time later – explaining that he had simply been a good Samaritan and a girl had attempted to blackmail him.
The two incidents were swiftly linked, and King was arrested at his home in Dudley Drive, Littleover.
With King in custody, officers from the force’s specialist rape team found significant similarities between the case they were investigating and an incident that had occurred in Littleover the previous month.
In that incident, a teenage girl had reported that a man in a dark coloured car had attempted to drag her into his car in Chain Lane, Littleover. She had managed to fight him off and escape – and he had driven off.
Officers made enquiries about King’s movements on that night and found that his black BMW matched the description of the offenders car – and he had been caught on his doorbell CCTV camera leaving his home in the timeframe the offence took place.
With the two offences now linked, detectives were concerned that King may have been the perpetrator in other offences. His home gave him easy access to the A38 and a trawl of offences with similar circumstances was conducted with surrounding forces.
It was through that trawl that officers linked King to a reported rape in Newark in September 2019 where a teenager reported to Police that she had been raped by a man following a party.
Initially no charges had been brought, however, after the victim was contacted again she was able to confirm that King was the man who had attacked her.
King was eventually charged with four counts of rape for the September 2023 incident, one count of attempted rape for the August attack, and one count of rape for the 2018 incident.
He eventually pleaded guilty to all offences and on Monday, February 24, 2025 at Derby Crown Court, he was jailed for 24 years with an extended licence period of six years. He will also be on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.
In an impact statement read to the court by the survivor of the September 2023 attack, she explained how she had been left requiring medication and therapy to cope with the impact of his crimes.
DC Chloe Price, who was the lead officer in bringing King to justice, said: “Alex King is among the most dangerous offenders I have come across.”
