{"id":337043,"date":"2025-08-12T00:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337043\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:13:17","slug":"woman-jumps-out-of-window-after-terrifying-attack-by-midlands-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337043\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman jumps out of window after terrifying attack by Midlands rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Chambers, 38, has been jailed for 12 years<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_JS377577549.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Chambers\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Ashley Chambers<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A woman leapt out of a window after suffering a terrifying attack at the hands of a Midlands rapist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ashley Chambers threatened his victim with knives and scissors before throttling her, forcing her to pass out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">When she eventually regained consciousness, she jumped from a window in a desperate bid to escape her attacker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">She rushed from the scene and got help before telling police of the shocking ordeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Chambers has now been jailed for 12 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/uk-heatwave-mapped-234-towns-32241713\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">UK heatwave mapped as 234 towns and cities to sizzle &#8211; full list<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Nottingham Crown Court heard how the victim was also raped by Chambers on two separate occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Chambers, 38, admitted two counts of rape, intentional strangulation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and threatening a person with an offensive weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Chambers, of Ilkeston Road, Stapleford, was jailed on Friday, August 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was also handed an indefinite restraining order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Detective Constable Jessica Ratcliffe, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: &#8220;I\u2019d like to firstly praise the victim in this case, whose brave decision to share her experiences helped put Chambers behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;After going through such a horrific ordeal, she deserves so much credit for doing what she\u2019s done since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;In stark contrast to her strength, Chambers showed himself to be a complete coward, with his despicable behaviour rightly seeing him sent to prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;While no amount of time will ever make up for the pain he caused, we were really pleased to see the judge impose such a significant sentence, which we hope will provide the victim with some small degree of comfort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Don&#039;t miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the BirminghamLive newsletter hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Don&#8217;t miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the BirminghamLive newsletter here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashley Chambers, 38, has been jailed for 12 yearsAshley Chambers A woman leapt out of a window after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,30,188,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-337043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115012908183784177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}