Dutch child rapist Steven van de Velde has been booed by the crowd as fell to defeat his first Olympics beach volleyball match. Jeers rang out at the packed stadium as the 29-year-old convicted attacker took to sand court at the Champs de Mars park under the Eiffel Tower. The 6ft 6ins Dutchman was in action against Italy's Alex Ranghieri and Adrian Carambula with doubles partner Matthew Immers, 23.

Van de Velde, who was again booed as he was introduced to the crowd for his Olympic debut, and his teammate would go on to fall at the first hurdle, losing 2-1 to their Italian opponents. The athlete, who was wearing the number 'one' in Netherlands blue and orange colours, appeared to have no reaction to the negative reaction, taking off his dark, white rimmed sun-glasses, only to wipe sweat off his forehead.

Van de Velde was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 after pleading guilty to raping a 12-year year-old British girl in August 2014 when he was 19. The Dutchman had travelled from Amsterdam to the UK and raped the girl at a house in Milton Keynes. Despite being told by a judge that his conviction was 'career ending', van De Velde resumed his volleyball career after serving just 12 months of his four year sentence. But he was selected for the Netherlands Olympic beach volley squad in June this year.

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During his trial just less than a decade ago, Aylesbury Crown Court heard how van de Velde had travelled to the UK and met up with his victim and had sex with her. Sandra Beck, prosecuting, told the court at the time: 'She describes that she had met Steven van de Velde on ********, they spoke regularly through that and he made her 'feel special'.

'She certainly made it clear she was seven years younger than him. This relationship over social media was taking place over a period of time.' The volleyball player's victim had added him as a friend on ******** after he commented favourably on one of her photos, the court heard. The following day, after the pair slept in cardboard boxes under a stairway at Premier Inn, having again been unable to book a room, she took him to her empty house and he took her virginity.

Before he returned to the Netherlands van de Velde advised her to get the morning after pill as they had not used contraception. It was her visit to a family planning clinic that alerted the authorities, who stepped in because of the girl's young age. The sportsman, of Westeinde 46, Voorburg, the Netherlands, was extradited to the UK on January 8, when he was arrested on suspicion of the sex acts. He later admitted three counts of rape against a child.

Linda Strudwick, defending, insisted it had been a 'spur of the momedernt decision' to fly to England and said van de Velde was not a 'predatory young man.' Aylesbury Crown Court heard that his victim had later self-harmed after the trauma of her encounter with him.

The dutch are as ultra left as it gets, but this is a crazy story.

So we're basically just openly letting ****philes compete now?

Wonder what Miss Crap In The Road was wishing him luck for-the event, or finding new victims in Paris?

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