'Evil' teenage rapist Kevarnie Queen faces jail for three-year campaign of sexual abuse against schoolgirls

Kevarnie Queen was dubbed the 'Brixton R Kelly' after he was revealed as a serial rapist of teenage girls.
Kevarnie Queen raped six teenage girls in a three-year campaign of sexual abuse.
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A teenage predator dubbed “evil” and a “demon” who raped six girls in a three-year reign of terror is facing jail.

Kevarnie Queen flattered and groomed the vulnerable victims on Snapchat before attacking them, as he competed with friends to have sex with as many girls as possible.

Five of his six victims were just 15 when they were raped, and one told Inner London crown court she has attempted to kill herself seven times since she was attacked by Queen.

Dubbed the “Brixton R Kelly” after his crimes came to light, Queen used body-shaming, mind games, and emotional abuse to stop the girls going to police, the court heard.

Queen, now 19, was convicted at trial of 22 charges of rape carried out between May 2019 and May 2022, when he was aged 15 to 18-years-old.

He now faces a lengthy jail term as he appeared for sentence on Wednesday before Judge Usha Karu, the Recorder of Southwark.  

Statements from all six victims were read to the court, revealing how they were left feeling suicidal, emotionally traumatised, unable to leave the house, and distrusting of men.

Some of the victims wept in court as their words were read aloud, sitting just feet away from Queen.

One told the court how friends of Queen tied to intimidate her into staying silent by vandalising her mother’s garden, leaving her “living in constant fear”.

“Kevarnie knew how to manipulate me, he knew words could trigger emotions, and he knew exactly what to tell me and how to play mind games with me”, she said. “I went out looking for love, and ended up meeting Kevarnie. He told me he loved me but he doesn’t know what love is.”

She added in her statement: “Kevarnie was in competition with his friends to see who could get the most girls, the prettiest girls.”

The Crown Prosecution Service said Queen tried to charactised himself as a “player”, insisting all the girls had sex consensually and were now lying about being raped as part of a “hate campaign”.

Another victim who was 15 when she was raped said she had attempted suicide three times.

“Every time I see a child, I pray they won’t have to come across a demon like you”, she said, of the ongoing mental trauma she is enduring.

One of the girls detailed how Queen had used “body shaming” to control her, causing lasting damage to her self esteem.

“When I look at myself in the mirror, I see a damaged soul”, she said. “He had ill intentions from the start, I trusted him and he betrayed me.”

She told the court she was raped in a stairwell opposite Queen’s home, despite wanting to lose her virginity only after marriage.

“I will never be able to live purely again. I will never be able to trust anyone again, I will never get my innocence back”, she said. "It is something I will have to live with for the rest of my life.”

One of the victims said Queen’s abuse has “scarred me forever” and suggested that there were more then six victims of Queen’s sexual abuse.

“I hope this brings justice to those young females you raped who didn’t come forward”, she said.

One of the girls said her picture was posted on Snapchat after Queen was reported to police, leading to death threats online.

“I was then feeling unsafe to even leave the house to go to school and live my life the way I wanted to”, she said.

Queen’s last victim called him “evil”, and told the court: “He is not sorry for what he has done, he is only sorry he got caught.”

Addressing the final part of her statement to Queen, she said: “You tried to break me, but in the process, in the log run, you only broke yourself and this has made me stronger and wiser.

“Thank you for temporarily breaking my heart but forever fixing my vision.”

Queen, who used his street tag “K1” on Snapchat as he contacted victims, has been assessed by medical experts, who found evidence of narcissism and a histrionic personality disorder.

His barrister Laurie-Anne Power KC said Queen has been stabbed twice in prison after details of his crimes were revealed, and he was put on 24-hour isolation by jail bosses.

She said Queen was "loosely affiliated" with gangs around Brixton, but had not been actively involved.  

Queen, of Barrington Road in Brixton, denied but was convicted of 22 counts of rape.

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