Kyle John was given an indefinite sentence for a sex attack on a 15-year-old schoolgirl
A prisoner given an indefinite sentence for a horrific sex attack is being allowed out of jail every day to run a taxi service.
Kyle John, 26, drives a Home Office minibus ferrying other prisoners to work placements and universities.
John was branded a danger to society for brutally stripping a schoolgirl, beating her unconscious and leaving her for dead in the snow.
Her back was broken, her jaw and eye socket smashed and a doctor said they were the worst assault injuries he had seen in 28 years.
But just seven years later John drives out of the prison gates every day, clocking up hundreds of miles in the white minibus.
Other days he drives the prison’s nearly-new £20,000 silver Skoda Estate on his rounds in South Wales.
MailOnline pictured him picking up a prisoner from a university campus where hundreds of young women are potentially at risk.
The former carpentry student, now 26, was jailed for a minimum of five years for the attack. But now almost every day he is allowed out of jail to work as a prison service taxi driver
John, responsible for one of the worst sex attacks the police and CPS said it had ever seen, is allowed to drive prisoners unsupervised to hotels and universities in Cardiff city centre
Four days later we saw him dropping off an inmate outside Cardiff’s plush Holiday Inn.
A prison insider said: ‘Kyle John spends his days driving prisoners to and from work placements.
‘He was given an indeterminate sentence but he has landed one of the most privileged jobs for prisoners.
‘The public has no idea that a man like him is circulating in society while serving their prison sentence.
‘His victim and her family would be horrified.’
The insider said John spends more daylight hours out of prison chauffeuring inmates around than he does locked up in the Category D jail.
MailOnline pictured monster John dropping off a fellow prisoner at Cardiff’s Holiday Inn hotel
He has been given a prison-issue mobile phone which is a perk of the job.
John was carpentry student when he attacked the 15-year-old girl after boozing with his mates two days before Christmas.
She was stripped, beaten and sexually assaulted in the attack which left her ‘unrecognisable’.
John, 19 at the time, dragged her unconscious into the undergrowth and left her for dead, close to the town centre of Aberdare, South Wales.
John is currently serving his sentence at HMP Prescoed, near Usk in South Wales
Cardiff Crown Court heard she would have died from hypothermia but was found in the nick of time.
Her face and body were cut and swollen and John left his calling card on her forehead – the imprint of his shoe.
John, of Barry, South Wales, pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent, and sexual penetration. Charges of rape and attempted murder were allowed to lie on the file.
Judge John Curran gave him an indeterminate sentence with a minimum term of five years.
The judge told him: ‘You carried out a brutal, sustained and violent assault on a 15-year-old girl with sexual motivation.’
The Home Office is reluctant to give details of where John has served his sentence but he is currently at HMP Prescoed, near Usk in South Wales.
He is given the keys to the white two-year-old Renault Master minibus most days to take prisoners to and from their placements.
John was also pictured picking up a prisoner from a university campus where hundreds of young women are potentially at risk
Of John’s trips around the city centre, a source told MailOnline: ‘His regular nightly run is to Cardiff Metropolitan University where he picks up a prisoner who goes there to study’
John drops prisoners at a branch of Timpsons in South Wales and at a Newport charity which helps people cope with substance abuse.
The prison insider said: ‘He is totally unsupervised with a van load of prisoners who have committed various offences, some of them serious.
‘He drops them at hotels and restaurants, where they work in the kitchens, and at even at call centres.
‘His regular nightly run is to Cardiff Metropolitan University where he picks up a prisoner who goes there to study.
‘There is always a risk of him absconding but it’s a cushy number so he’s probably better off seeing out his sentence.’
A Prison Service spokesperson said: ‘Any individual released on temporary license will be rigorously risk assessed and subject to a thorough set of conditions.
‘GPS trackers are kept in all prison issue vehicles to closely monitor offenders, with strict driving routes enforced by a dedicated member of staff.
‘Where we can safely use prisoner labour to reduce cost to the taxpayer, we do so – but offenders face being returned to tougher, closed prisons if they fail to comply with their release conditions.’
Beast John, who was 19 at the time of the attack in south Wales is given the keys to the white two-year-old Renault Master minibus most days to take prisoners to and from their placements