'Dangerous' double rapist, 31, jailed.

A RAPIST has been locked up indefinitely after a judge told him he posed a "clear and present danger" to women.

Darren Foster was yesterday given an indeterminate sentence, with a minimum tariff of nine years, for the public protection at Cardiff Crown Court for subjecting two women to "horrific" ordeals.

The 31-year-old from the Bettws area of Newport was convicted earlier this month of raping an 18-year-old student during the early hours of May 29 last year. The attack took place in a subway in Cardiff.

After the initial incident, he walked her to a nearby canal where he continued the sexual attack in some undergrowth.

Prosecutor Huw Evans said that because Foster's victim believed she was going to be killed, she broke up an earring and began dropping parts on the ground so her body could be found in the event of her death.

Mr Evans said the ordeal for the victim lasted a total of four hours before she managed to escape.

In police interview Foster denied being in the area at the time of the attack but when presented with DNA evidence, he claimed the pair had had consensual sex.

In the second trial, Foster was found guilty of raping a woman six years prior to the attack in the city subway.

In this instance he drove a woman to a secluded barn and hit her over the head with a petrol can before raping her.