Rapist guilty of attack on teenage girl
A predatory rapist who preyed on a vulnerable 15-year-old schoolgirl as she was walking home faces years in prison.
A predatory rapist who preyed on a vulnerable 15-year-old schoolgirl as she was walking home faces years in prison.
Ismail Ahmed, aged 27, subjected the teenager to a sustained sex attack, raping her twice, after a night out drinking in Northampton.
At Northampton Crown Court yesterday, he was convicted by majority verdicts of two rape charges and told he faced years in prison.
The Tanzanian rapist had only been in the UK for two months, having recently arrived on a two-year marriage visa, when the attack happened on August 2.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was walking home to the eastern district from Northampton town centre after being separated from her friends while out in Bridge Street. She met Ahmed in Abington Square before being coerced to go with him into a back street.
Matthew Brookes-Baker, prosecuting, said it was as they neared The Fiddlers public house in Wellingborough Road, that Ahmed tried to kiss the girl.
He said: "She initially resisted by turning her face away. He said words to the effect of 'Just give me one kiss'. She decided if she did that he might leave her alone. She gave him a kiss and a hug."
Ahmed then led her to the corner of Palmerston Road and St Edmund's Road where she was raped. He left, having taken her mobile phone number, but when he called 999 to say he was locked out, police connected his number to the one which had been used to call the victim's phone.
Ahmed, of Elizabeth Walk, Northampton, denied rape, claiming the underage girl had consented but was convicted after seven hours' deliberation.
Judge Thomas Corrie said: "I do not know just how dangerous he is.
"I think it would be best to have a report and I will then be in a better position to assess what risk he is to others. This was a predatory attack upon a vulnerable young woman, obviously affected by drink, late at night by an adult man who should have known better."
The judge adjourned sentencing for a probation report and remanded Ahmed in custody until mid-April, placing him on the Sex Offenders' Register for life. Ahmed will automatically be deported upon his release from the "inevitable" prison sentence.
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