A person who strangled, raped and threatened to kill an adolescent hours after the 2 linked on a flatsharing app has been jailed for 12 years.
Mirza Begg confirmed the 18-year-old lady a ‘sinister-looking’ assortment of weapons, together with knives, a sword and bullets earlier than the assault at his residence in Birmingham.
Thirty-four-year-old Begg was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court docket on Friday following a conviction in September.
A jury discovered him responsible of two expenses of assault by penetration, intentional strangulation, making threats with a bladed weapon, and assault.
The court docket heard that Begg lured the younger lady to his flat with the promise of permitting her to stay there.
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On the sentencing, prosecutor Joshua Purser advised Birmingham Crown Court docket that the sufferer, who can’t be recognized for authorized causes, was intentionally put in concern and subdued by being proven the weapons earlier than she was attacked.
She was then held towards her will and ‘needed to be rescued’ by police after messaging a buddy to say she had been assaulted.
The ‘extraordinarily weak’ lady contacted Begg by way of the Roomies app and he later picked her up in a automotive he had borrowed from a relative, the trial heard.
Begg, who has earlier convictions for battery and theft, appeared at his sentencing listening to by way of a jail videolink, having refused to assist probation workers put together a pre-sentence report.
Mr Purser advised the court docket: ‘We submit that the usage of the app was demonstrative of his planning – a deliberate lure by which he might conjure up a pretence to convey a feminine into his flat with no witnesses.
‘There was not a single second of consensual sexual exercise regardless of what he mentioned at trial.’
As he sentenced Begg, Choose Simon Drew KC described the offences as ‘very severe’.
Begg, who advised the lady he was just lately divorced and searching for somebody to share his residence, had supposed to entice the lady to stay at his flat, the decide mentioned.
When the lady resisted, the court docket heard, Begg had sworn at her, advised her to ‘cope with it’ after which sexually assaulted her regardless of repeated makes an attempt to combat him off.
He additionally slapped the sufferer and used a knife to threaten her.
Ultimately Begg fell asleep, the police have been contacted and he was arrested, the decide mentioned.
‘This was a particularly severe offence by which you had intentionally deliberate to lure the sufferer to your property and she or he was clearly somebody who was younger – nearly half your age – and also you focused her,’ Choose Drew advised Begg
Begg, who will likely be on the intercourse offenders register for all times, was advised he should serve two-thirds of his sentence in custody earlier than being launched on licence.
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