A SERIAL rapist has been jailed indefinitely for violently attacking a woman – after being freed from prison for an almost identical rape.

Michael Hora, 41, was on the sex offenders’ register when he subjected his victim to a three-hour ordeal in her own Mottingham home, Bromley.

The “really nasty piece of work” locked the 37-year-old woman in the house before punching her in the head and subjecting her to the horrific assault, which included raping her twice.

The terrified victim managed to escape the early-hours attack through a first-floor bedroom window, climbing across a porch roof and jumping to the ground to raise the alarm.

Now homeless Hora has been locked up indefinetely after being convicted of two counts of rape and one of sexual assault.

The Croydon Crown Court judge recommended last Friday that he not be released for at least four years for the public’s protection after the March 11 attack.

Bromley police’s Det Sgt Peter Rance said: “Hora is an extremely dangerous and manipulative person - a really nasty piece of work. He is the worst kind of offender with no remorse at all.”

Police say Hora’s modus operandi was identical when he raped a woman in St Paul’s Cray in 2000.

He was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for life and jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in August 2001 after being found guilty of that offence. The sentence was reduced to five years on appeal and he was freed in 2003 after serving half that.

He committed his latest rape the following March and was unanimously found guilty by a jury in October. Hora had denied the offences, claiming sex was consensual.