The impeccable manners of high-flying architect Anthony De Boise earned him the nickname of Mr Nice Guy among office colleagues.

But the wealthy professional who prided himself on his easy charm was one of Britain’s most wanted sex fiends.

For 17 years the predatory paedophile had detectives baffled by disguising himself as a tramp.

He roamed the countryside looking like a down and out and disappeared into the undergrowth after brutally assaulting his victims sometimes at knife-point.

By the time police arrived at the scene of his six attacks convinced they were hunting a dishevelled loner, cultured De Boise, 59, a married father with two sons at private school, had changed out of his tramp clothes and slipped effortlessly back into family life at his £550,000 country home.

“I had first hand experience of those oily good manners,” recalls Vicki Jordan, 24, who was just 13 when depraved De Boise subjected her and her best friend Carrie Milne, 24, to a 45-minute ordeal at knife point.

“When he’d finished with us he gave me a hug and politely said ‘Thank you’” says Vicki. “So much for good manners. It was sickening. He said it as if I had had a choice in the matter.

“Thinking about it now he said it as if I was a prostitute. But I was a 13-year-old little girl. The man is a monster.

“Only minutes before hugging me he was holding a knife to my throat and I was in no doubt that he would have used it. I was terrified. I can still see the knife now. That picture will never leave me.

“It was a flick knife with a wooden handle and two gold bands next to the blade and on the top of the handle.

“I thank God that no body will ever be fooled or hurt by him again.”

 Carrie, who was also aged just 13 when De Boise attacked them, said: ”He stole our innocence in 45 minutes. One minute we were playing hop scotch and the next we were being abused. Nothing was the same after that. I think we both aged five years overnight. Our childhood was gone.

“But we are both determined he will not win. That is why we have come forward. To show that he is the loser and we have won because our lives will go on.”

Sick De Boise, who wore a scruffy, stained tracksuit and dirty trainers, had made the girls perform oral sex on him before disappearing into the woods.

He always wore sunglasses when he went on the prowl and disguised his cut glass accent with cockney tones.

Despite their determination to rebuild their lives, both Vicki and Carrie say De Boise nearly destroyed them.

Carrie, a support worker for a charity for adults with learning difficulties, finds it difficult to form relationships with men and split up with her boyfriend of four years just as De Boise came to trial.

“He couldn’t accept what happened to me and in the end I was better off without him,” she says.

“Sometimes when I see a certain type of Casio watch – like the one De Boise was wearing – I feel sick and I just burst into tears and have to take myself away.

“I’ve become a strong person but even I can’t explain why the image of that watch has such an impact on me.

“And there are certain phrases – like the ones he used which I didn’t understand at the time and don’t want to repeat – that make me freeze sometimes.”

And though Vicki, now a full-time mum, is in a strong relationship with boyfriend Mark, her partner of two years, she has one failed marriage behind her and she admits her ordeal sent her off the rails during early adulthood.

“I became very difficult and very angry and stroppy,” she says.

“I was putting two fingers up to everybody. I hated everybody for a long time. I lost control of my life and became very rebellious and already I have five children which is a lot for a 24 year-old.

“I thank my parents so much for still being there for me.

“I’m pregnant again and I’m worried the stress caused by this coming back into our lives will cause me to have a miscarriage. I keep going to see the doctor to be on the safe side.”

It was a beautiful summer’s day on Monday, August 23rd, 1995 when Vicki and Carrie set out hand in hand from their homes in Chessington, Surrey.

They had been best friends since meeting at Lovelace Primary School in Chessington and their friendship had continued at Tollcross Girls’ School where they would soon be starting their third year and deciding what GCSEs to take.

It was a route the girls knew well because they used to take Carrie’s pet dog Cassie for walks there.

“We loved going there and were feeding grass to the horses when he walked past us,” recalls Vicki.

“I spotted him first. He was wearing sun glasses and looked scruffy and had a sort of blue jacket on. He was wearing sunglasses.

“I thought he was going to tell us off for feeding the horses. We thought we were in trouble.

“I tried to push past him but then I saw the knife.

“He said: ‘Follow me’ in this quiet kind of nasty gruff voice and pointed towards the woods. We did it because he was a grown up and he was scary.

“We came to this clearing where there were two logs and he told us to stop.

“He ordered us to pull our shorts and knickers down and we just did it. We were scared kids and he was a grown up.

“We didn’t understand what was happening to us. We hadn’t even had boyfriends by then and didn’t know about sex.

“He stayed with Carrie and told me to sit on the opposite log and turn my back to him.

“I could hear Carrie, my best friend choking. I was crying but I told him to stop hurting Carrie and he stopped.

“But then he made us swap places and it was my turn. All the time he was holding the knife.

“I immediately wished I hadn’t said anything but at least he stopped him hurting Carrie.

“Then when he had finished he hugged me. It still makes me shudder.

“He told us to stay where we were. He said ‘Count to 100 and don’t move or I will come back and get you.’ Then he went off into the woods.

“We didn’t count to 100. We were so terrified we hurriedly put our clothes on just ran in the opposite direction to the way he had gone.

“We were crying and screaming and ran through bushes and thick bracken.

“We even ran through a barbed wire fence. I’ve still got a scar on my leg today from that fence.

“We ended up on Surbiton Golf Course and three golfers helped us and the police were called.

“We were in shock and panic stricken but when the police questioned us were able to give a good e-fit description and tell them about a scar on his knee.”

But despite thousands of hours of police man hours being spent on the case and an appeal on the BBC’s Crimewatch, De Boise remained at large.

The two childhood friends believed their attacker would never be caught and lost contact with each other after leaving school in 1998.

But ten years after his last attack on a 14-year-old girl in 1996 De Boise, a senior surveyor for Wandsworth Council, was accused by his sister of plundering his father’s estate in a row over a will.

She eventually dropped the charges but as part of the police investigation De Boise gave a DNA sample. Detectives at Scotland Yard’s Sapphire Cold Case Rape Unit were stunned when the sample matched those in their files from the attack on Vicki and Carrie and the 14-year-old girl attacked in 1996.

The girls – who hadn’t spoken for eight years -

were reunited when police called in February this year (2006) to say they had snared evil De Boise.

“We never thought this day would come,” says Vicki. “Over ten years had passed since he attacked us and we had both given up any hope of anyone being caught and just got on with life the best we could.

“Then one day out of the blue the police told us they had got him. Straight away we agreed to give evidence if we needed to and agreed to do everything we could to put him behind bars.”

The brave girls were prepared to take the witness box and face the monster in court but they didn’t have to when De Boise, faced with the overwhelming DNA evidence, pleaded guilty.

Last week the pervert’s anguished wife Susan, 56, looked on at Southwark Crown Court in London as he was caged for 13 years after he admitted six charges of indecent assault between 1989 and 1996 on secluded paths near his home in Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, Surrey.

Carrie said: “I looked him in the eye in court before he was sentenced and he just smirked.

“I don’t think he has any remorse at all.”

Jailing De Boise, Judge Nicholas Lorraine-Smith told him: “I have no doubt that if the right circumstances arose you could well present a continuing and serious danger to young girls.

“You were simply acting out your sexual fantasies.

“Why you did what you did I do not know.”

De Boise pounced on some of his victims during lunch breaks from his well paid job and at other times he travelled from his home to subject his victims aged between 13 and 16 to lengthy ordeals.

Then in 1996 the attacks suddenly stopped.

But police believe De Boise may be responsible for more attacks after 1996 and Vicki and Carrie have waved their right to anonymity in the hope they may help other victims come forward and seek help in coming to terms with their ordeals.

Vicky said: “What has happened to us has made us very, very close. And we are both grateful that we haven’t had to go through this on our own.

“I think it must have been more difficult for the girls who were on their own. At least we have been able to support each other and we understand what the other has gone through and that helps.”

Carrie added: “We are not ashamed of what happened. We’ve got nothing to be ashamed of. We were very innocent little girls.

“If there are other women out there who are victims of De Boise like us – or a victim of anybody else and are suffering in silence - we want them to come forward and not have to deal with it on their own.

“That is the main reason Vicki and I have come forward. You don’t have to suffer alone and with support you can overcome this.

“At first I used to sit around in my room and my mum told me that if I carried on like that he would have won and that has stuck with me ever since. No way am I going to let that happen.”

De Boise’s wife is standing by him claiming that the attacks were triggered by the effects of severe diabetic hypoglycaemia on his brain.

Vicky said: “Part of me feels that by standing by him she is condoning what he has done.

“It is like saying she doesn’t care about the victims as much as her marriage. I don’t know how she can do that.

Especially since she is a mother herself.

“I don’t feel any sympathy for her.”

Carrie added: ”In a way he has abused his own children by what he is making them go through now. I do feel sorry for them for that.”

Vicki and Carrie both support a law which would give parents controlled access to information about paedophiles living within their communities.

Carrie said: “Of course parents should be aware if someone dangerous is living nearby. As long as it doesn’t result in vigilante action.”

If De Boise had committed his offences after the 2003 Sexual Offences Act he would have been charged with the more serious offence of rape and could have been jailed for life.

“Obviously we would have liked him to have been locked up for longer,” says Vicki.

“But after all this time we are just happy he is behind bars.”

“I think he is serving a life sentence anyway, in his mind, for what he has done to us and also to his own family. It is no more than he deserves.”

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