A REDDITCH schoolboy who raped a fellow pupil and mounted a sex attack on another girl is facing jail.

The teenager met the first victim after school and forced her to perform a sex act on him in woodland near their Redditch school - which under new laws constitutes rape - Worcester Crown Court heard.

Both girls were aged 15 and had refused requests by the defendant to engage in sexual activity before he molested them.

The jury of eight men and four women took only two hours to convict the teenager - now aged 16 - of rape and sexual assault on Thursday at the end of a seven-day trial.

The youth wept and was comforted by his grandfather as Judge John Cavell told him a sentence of custody was inevitable for such serious offences. He remanded the youth - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - on bail for reports. He will be sentenced on September 9.

Prosecutor Gareth Walters described how the teenager, then aged 15, sent the rape victim a note to meet him after school on October 6 last year.

He later denied meeting her but another pupil saw them together and picked him out on an identity parade.

The defendant also claimed a teacher kept him back that day to talk about a parents' evening.

When this false alibi was discounted by the teacher, he changed his story and claimed a faulty lock on his locker made him miss his bus home.

After the rape attack became public, another pupil went to police and told how she was assaulted after attending the youth's Redditch home to watch DVD films in August last year.

The youth lied that no girls had ever been to his home and claimed he was playing golf that day with his brother. But checks revealed the brother was at work.

Mr Walters told the jury: "There are no winners in a case that has caused great upset in the lives of young people."

He rejected a defence claim that the girls had "fitted him up" after the youth had rejected them and said it would have taken "trained actors" to stick to such detailed accounts given by the girls if they had invented them.

Defence barrister James Wood said the youth, who had no previous convictions, was a popular boy at school, good at sports and drama and had only ever had one detention.

He claimed the youth had made "honest mistakes" during the trauma of being questioned after his arrest at school two days after the rape.