AN abusive and violent rapist jailed for 19 years for repeatedly sexually assaulting a woman in Kent is a former Barrow man who was convicted of shaking a baby in 2009, it can now be revealed.


Christopher Newton left a four-week-old child with multiple injuries including broken ribs, serious head injuries, bruising to the genitals and fractures to the hip and foot back in 2009 when he lived in Barrow.

Then 23, Newton had denied the offences of cruelty to a person under 16 by wilfully assaulting a child, wilfully ill-treating a child, causing grievous bodily harm and unlawful wounding, but was found guilty after a trial.

In November 2010, Newton was jailed for two years and in May 2012, after being released, he was given a further 10-month sentence after pleading guilty to committing perjury at his original trial by fabricating text messages and Facebook conversations.

Since then, he moved to Kent and in February of this year, going by the name Christopher Moore, the 30-year-old was jailed for 19 years after being found guilty of nine counts of rape.

The Crown Prosecution Service has now released details to The Mail that confirm his previous identity as Christopher Newton.

During his trial at Canterbury Crown Court at the beginning of this year, Moore was described as a "controlling, abusive and violent rapist" and even while in prison, he managed to get his victim’s number and sent threats so she would withdraw her support for a prosecution.

The court heard he strangled, punched, smothered with a pillow and kicked his victim and threatened to kill her pet dog, and even vowed to reunite her with her dead parents.


Judge O’Mahony was told that since being remanded in custody he had begun to have "insight" into himself and now accepts he had "deep-seated problems which he is now resolved to tackle in prison".

Jailing him for 19 years, Judge James O’Mahony told Moore: "It is my job to assess criminal behaviour and to find the right words to describe it.

"However heinous and grave the crimes, it has always been my practice not to use insulting words towards a defendant.

"So I stop short of calling you a monster but the evidence given in this trial has disclosed monstrous behaviour on your part and it is highly likely you are extremely dangerous towards women."

After the sentencing, the Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS South East, Jaswant Narwal, said: "The victim in this case faced a horrifying ordeal at Moore’s hands. She was raped repeatedly by him and, once she reported him to the police, he started to call, text and email with threats.

"One text message the victim received talked about the only way they would ever be apart was when she was with her parents, who were both dead, while another spoke about following her and knowing where she was staying.

"It was thanks to the support of a friend that the victim came forward initially and Moore has now been brought to justice.

"This is a timely reminder to all of us that everyone has a role to play if we suspect someone we know is suffering abuse in this way. As this case shows, it does not even need to be physical abuse for it to have a serious impact on someone’s life."