A VILE teen rapist behind a huge fire that tore through a 150-year-old mill used to film Peaky Blinders and Downton Abbey faces jail.
Keaton Greenman, 19, was convicted of at Dalton Mills, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, back in August 2024.
Keaton Greenman, 19, can now be sentenced Credit: West Yorkshire Police
The huge fire ripped through historic Dalton Mills in Keighley, West Yorkshire Credit: SWNS
He was found guilty of arson alongside McKenzie Mottran, now 20, at Bradford Youth Court – but Greenman could not be sentenced due to a then-looming separate trial for serious sexual offences.
On Friday (August 7) he was found guilty of three counts of rape against the same victim following a trial at Bradford Crown Court.
The 19-year-old, formerly of Shelby Grange, Shipley, faced four counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault dating back to 2024.
He was acquitted by a jury of one count of rape and all charges of sexual assault.
Damage to the mill was estimated to be £15million Credit: Guzelian
The mill has been used in TV show Peaky Blinders Credit: BBC
Following the sentencing, Greenman and Mottran can be sentenced for their role in the arson on the Grade II*-listed Genappe Mill – used as filming location for the hit TV show Peaky Blinders.
They were originally due to be sentenced in January, but Recorder Mark Giuliani adjourned the sentencing of both until Greenman’s rape matters had been dealt with.
Sentencing has been adjourned for at least eight weeks.
Videos on the pair’s mobile phones showed them exploring the mill and finding a small fire, which Greenman fed using pieces of a polystyrene gargoyle which may have been left behind by a film crew.
The resulting fire, which quickly spread through the building, involved more than 100 firefighters, 20 fire engines and other specialist equipment and took three days to put out.
Damage to the mill was estimated to be £15million.
Once the largest textile mill in Yorkshire – employing more than 2,000 workers – it was built by Joseph Craven in 1869, replacing the original mill from the 1780s.
As well as Peaky Blinders, it has been used for The Great Train Robbery, Downton Abbey and 2016 film The Limehouse Golem, starring Bill Nighy.
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