The would be rapist

I once had a friend who was very nearly raped. She was, unfortunately for her, and due to massive insecurity I think, incapable of standing up to men. She had no respect for herself, which they figured out, and so they had no respect for her either. (She even had a male friend who regularly felt her breasts, with no argument from her whatsoever, though it obvious it made her uncomfortable.)

On a night out, she met some guy who hassled her all night to go back to his, at the end of the evening, all her friends had disappeared and not wanting to wait for a taxi on her own, she agreed to go back to this guy's flat so she could phone a taxi, she told him that 'nothing would happen'.
She didn't ring a taxi straight away, she got coerced into hanging around with this guy for a while, lying on his bed. On getting up to put on her shoes, he 'playfully' wrestled her to the bed, where he proceeded to tear open her tights, and only stopped once she told him she'd make so he'd never have kids if he carried on.
She went home pretty quickly after that and, terrified, cried all night.
When she told me about this, I told her to point this guy out if ever she saw him.
We were out one night in a club in Preston. Some boy came up and was talking to her, and since this was nothing unusual I didn't notice for a while she was trying to mouth to me that this was the guy. He'd actually come up to 'apologise', joking getting on his knees and 'begging' for forgiveness. He'd apparently told his mother what had happened (?!) and she had 'had a go at him'. My friend was obviously uncomfortable, and possibly a bit scared, but went along with it, and allowed him to get hold of her hands and laughed along with him.
Once he'd finished this display of audacity, and perhaps seeing the way I was looking at him, felt the need to excuse himself to me also, I didn't let him finish. I told him to fuck off in a way that stated very clearly if he didn't, he'd be picking his teeth up off the floor, and though at first his mouth literally fell open, and obviously unused to such hostility (and lack of fear) from a female, tried again, he soon got the message and bravely scurried off with his friend to the other side of the club.
This guy was obviously a jerk of the highest order, and made the most angry I have ever been. Not only was he a pervert and a danger to all women, he also thought he could fob women off into thinking he was acceptable through either compliance to men or fear of them. Not only did it enrage me he had treated my friend that way, and that he had gotten away with it, but that he honestly though I would let him get away with it too.
I couldn't believe that this guy had tried to rape her, and he was apologising as though all he'd done was spill her drink. I only hope that by shocking him rigid being so hostile I made him think twice about trying to rape anyone else in case he got one like me, but probably all it made him do was choose his targets very carefully in future, and stick to girls afraid to stand up for themselves.