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Peter Samuel Cook (died 9 January 2004) was a serial rapist who attacked women in the city of Cambridge and so became known in the press as the Cambridge Rapist.〔 The majority of Cook’s victims were students of the University of Cambridge, whom he attacked after breaking into their bedsits and flats. He was active between October 1974 and April 1975, and was also called the ‘hooded rapist’ because of a distinctive leather mask he wore whilst carrying out his crimes.〔 The mask was reported to be “stitched from an old leather shopping bag. The zipper-mouthed mask had the word ‘rapist’ painted in white across the forehead”. Cook, who was arrested following what was one of Britain’s biggest police manhunts, was escaping from the scene of an attack wearing a long blonde wig as a disguise when he was apprehended. At the time of his arrest, Cook was 46 years old and working as a delivery driver for a wine company.〔 At his trial in 1976, in addition to six rapes Cook was also convicted of wounding two other women and committing an act of gross indecency on a ninth. A further victim had fought him off when he forcibly tried to gain access to her flat. On each occasion he is believed to have spoken to his victim.〔 Following Cook's conviction, Mr Justice Melford Stevenson gave him two life sentences and recommended he should spend the rest of his life in jail.〔 T-shirts capitalising on Cook’s notoriety were sold by punk fashion designers Malcolm Mclaren and Vivien Westwood and one of these is retained in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. ==Criminal history== Prior to his sexual offences, Cook already had a lengthy criminal history, having been a prolific burglar, and had served numerous prison sentences. As a young man he had made escapes from approved schools, and he later absconded from prisons on several occasions, becoming known as one of Britain’s most wanted escapees.〔 Looking back on his Cambridge rapes 40 years later in 2014, the ''Cambridge News'' noted: "On one occasion, after being sentenced to five years in jail, he was being held at Shire Hall in Cambridge awaiting prison transport to Dartmoor – and he managed to escape by squirming through a trapdoor in a ceiling. When he got a job as a scaffolder, workmates nicknamed him the Human Fly because of his agility. While on the run from Shire Hall, he wrote a letter to the ''News'', boasting that he had been back in Cambridge while police were searching for him, and bragging: ‘I am not worried now. Police, people, courts, nothing worries me now.’"〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Samuel Cook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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