A serial rapist who raped and murdered a trusted friend before dumping her body face down in a brook has been jailed for life. Wesley Streete promised to take 20-year-old Keeley Bunker home safely after a night out, but raped and murdered her in a local park before trying to conceal her body with branches on 19 September last year. He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 29 years at Stafford crown court on Friday, after Mr Justice Jeremy Baker criticised the “carefully crafted” scheme of lies he tailored to fit the evidence. Streete was also found guilty of a series of rapes and assaults dating back to 2015, when he raped and sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl. He also sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in 2017 and raped another 20-year-old woman in 2019, four months before he murdered Bunker. “This was a pattern of offending,” said Hannah Sidaway, who led the prosecution at West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service’s complex casework unit. “This wasn’t a spur of the moment attack, it was a pattern of behaviour over a significant amount of time.” She said Streete had a mindset of “this is what I need, this is what I want” and was going to fulfil those wants without any regard to his victims. Streete, whom the Crown Prosecution Service described as “truly evil”, did not match the usual image of a rapist, she said. “It’s easy to have a stereotypical image of a perpetrator, but what we often do not think about is a young lad who is popular, who has many friends, who is well known and liked.” Two of the survivors spoke to police after Streete’s arrest, and a third had spoken to officers informally but had not wished to continue with an investigation. “It’s taken such courage and bravery for Streete’s other victims to come forward, particularly given their young ages,” Sidaway said. The trial went ahead despite concerns about coronavirus. It was spread across three courts to maintain social distancing, with half of the jury in the normal position and the other half sat on benches normally occupied by barristers. Streete changed his defence four times during the investigation, establishing the one he used in court – that he had accidentally killed Bunker during consensual sex after a night out in Birmingham – on the last working day before the trial. Video footage shows the two laughing and dancing in a nightclub hours before the murder. At the end of the night Bunker, who aspired to become a teaching assistant, turned down an offer from her friend Monique Riggon to stay at her house. “I’ve got Wes, he’ll walk me back. It’ll be fine,” she said. Instead Streete diverted her to a rugby club where he raped and strangled her. “When you had finished with her, you decided to hide Keeley’s now lifeless body by depositing it in the brook, covering it up with branches. You then walked back to your home, went to bed and slept,” Baker said. Bunker’s uncle Jason Brown discovered his niece’s partially submerged body during a search that involved police, family and friends. After Streete’s conviction, Bunker’s mother, Debbie Watkins, said she had been robbed of her “precious and beautiful” daughter. Bunker’s sister described her sibling as “one of the most vibrant, caring and beautiful souls this earth has ever seen”. In impact statements, one of the survivors of Streete’s previous attacks told the court she thought what he had done to her was going to destroy her, but she had not let it. Another said: “After Wesley attacked me, I was scared to tell anyone. However, looking back, if something made you physically sick in your stomach, it is definitely not OK.” A third survivor described how she had blamed herself for the rape, because she had gone to Streete’s house and kissed him. “It wasn’t until I heard the sad news concerning Keeley that I found the courage to tell someone. It was at that point that I felt the full force of what happened to me, but by that time I had already dealt with my grief in what I feel was a bad way,” she said. Sentencing Streete. the judge said: “It is clear that not only was she loved by so many but that Keeley was one of the kindest, most caring of individuals. “Moreover, not only has she lost the opportunity of fulfilling her life ambition, helping to educate young children, her family have lost the company of their beloved daughter, sister and niece.”