Mouritala Saibou, of Sidda House, 350, Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon, Greater London, CR0 7A, was found guilty on two counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault.
He wept and was given a pack of tissues by the clerk before he was led to the cells.
Mouritala Saibou The Peckham Nonce
A rapist who drugged and sexually assaulted a stranger on her 30th birthday after lurking in a pub at closing time to target vulnerable victims, wept as he was jailed for eight years.
Mouritala Saibou, 43, joined in with a random group of strangers’ celebrations at the bar in Peckham, southeast London, before travelling back with them to the flat of his victim.
When everyone other than the victim had gone to bed, Saibou plied her with drink and drugs before raping her.
In a victim impact statement read out in court by the prosecution, she said that her ‘identity had been completely taken away from me, and I mourn the loss of it everyday.’
The 43-year-old attacker is also currently under investigation for another offence but has not yet been charged.
Paul Douglass, prosecuting, said it was a a calculated and predatory offence.
‘She (the victim) recalled asking the defendant, when at her flat, why he had been at the Prince of Peckham where the party had been,’ he said.
‘She recalled his response: ‘I only go to the Prince of Peckham when it is closing time’, the inference that he was on the prowl for vulnerable people, the crown suggests.
‘There’s also the issue of whether or not one takes the view that she was particularly vulnerable.
‘I suppose that will rely on what your honour makes of her account of how the substance which was given by the defendant changed her.
‘Effectively she says that it brought her to the state of complete vulnerability.
‘She was unable to control herself, unable to control her surroundings.
‘It seems to be the timing is victim specific and you take your victim as you find them.
‘If you rape someone on their birthday then that is going to seriously exacerbate the effects of the crime.’
Judge Benedict Kelleher told Saibou: ‘The victim of your offending was celebrating her birthday that evening with friends.
‘She had been to a public house in Peckham where a planned party took place, and when that ended she and her friends were intending to move on to a nightclub in Vauxhall.
‘She had by then consumed by her own account to the jury a very large quantity of alcohol and cocaine.
‘You happened to be in the area at the point that she and her friends were getting into taxis.
Saibou said that he would go to the Prince of Peckham at closing time
‘Why you were there has been the subject of some conjecture after the trial by the probation service.
‘Whilst it is certainly reasonable for them to consider whether you were in fact looking to commit a sexual offence that night, I am not satisfied to say that I am sure you had offending in mind.
‘It is clear from what you did though that you wished to find female company and no doubt if it became a possibility some form of sexual encounter.
‘What you did was to get into the taxi, to get into the taxi with a group of friends, move on to Vauxhall and stay with them as they tried to get into a nightclub there.
‘When they were refused to the nightclub you went back to the victims’ flat.
‘What followed was a party for some hours into the evening in which some more alcohol and some drugs were consumed.
‘When that came to something akin to an end, only you and she were left in the living room with her dancing to music.
‘You at that point offered her more drugs.
‘It has been suggested that you had with you some form of drug that you knew would sedate her.
‘There’s no evidence before me that leads me to be sure that is so.
‘You certainly had a drug, probably cocaine, of some kind which you offered her and which she took.
‘After that her memory of events was vague and her state was clearly rendered worse.
‘She was already heavily drunk and intoxicated, and after that was extremely vulnerable.
‘She was of course by then alone in her flat, her flatmate had gone to bed.
‘You took that opportunity to force yourself upon her sexually.
‘You raped her orally and then vaginally.
‘The effect of what you did was very substantial.
‘It is significant in my view that this happened on her birthday, in the sense that it will, as she describes, always be something she has to remember on what would otherwise be a happy day.
‘In my judgement, obviously this is so serious that only an immediate custodial sentence can be imposed.
‘The starting point of eight years is imprisonment is the correct sentence.’
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