An Egyptian migrant has been jailed and is about for deportation after raping a lady in London’s Hyde Park.
Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, 42, was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail for the rape, which occurred in November final yr.
Resulting from his sentence being over a yr, the offender can even be deported beneath the UK Borders Act 2007.
The decide stated Abouelela is within the nation illegally after arriving within the UK in April 2023.
The married father-of-one approached the sufferer as she was strolling house alone from an evening out in central London, Southwark Crown Courtroom was instructed on Tuesday.
He then lured her to a secluded spot within the park the place he raped her at about 9pm, the courtroom heard.
Choose Gregory Perrins instructed Mr Abouelela: "You thought completely nothing of her.
"It will need to have been apparent to you that she was a lady inebriated who was alone and weak.
"You made the choice to benefit from her vulnerability.
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The Choose added: "You have been pushed purely by your individual sexual wishes. You merely didn’t care that she couldn’t consent: you simply took what you needed."
He claimed asylum in Britain for concern of persecution in Egypt, his house nation, the place he claims he was held as a political prisoner and tortured.
Mr Abouelela was dwelling at no cost in a resort in Ealing, west London.
His spouse and son at present stay in Turkey, the courtroom heard.
Defence barrister Kane Sharpe instructed the courtroom that the attacker was recognized with emotionally unstable character dysfunction and complicated PTSD.
Choose Perrins, nevertheless, acknowledged he discovered this mitigating issue to be "minimal".
He stated: "There’s little connection between these circumstances and your resolution to rape the sufferer on that night time.
"It’s clear to me you don’t imagine you could have completed something mistaken."
The decide additional counseled the sufferer for her "immense bravery and braveness" in giving proof throughout Mr Abouelela’s trial at Southwark Crown Courtroom earlier this yr.
As a sufferer of a sexual offence, the sufferer is mechanically entitled to lifelong anonymity, which means she can’t be named.
This safety was established by the Sexual Offences (Modification) Act 1992.
Jurors discovered Mr Abouelela responsible of 1 depend of rape on Could 22.
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