El Fadaidill Ibrahim and Mohammed Abou-Gardda who raped a sex worker while keeping her prisoner in a flat has been jailed for 13 years and 5 years.
El Fadaidill Ibrahim and Mohammed Abou-Gardda persuaded the victim to visit Abou-Gardda’s flat in Bradford before subjecting her to a four-hour ordeal in March 2023, Bradford Crown Court heard.
Ibrahim, 29, of Queens Road in Halifax, was jailed after he was convicted of rape, false imprisonment, intentional strangulation and sexual assault.
Abou-Gardda, 30, of Pemberton Drive in Bradford, was jailed for five-and-a-half years after he admitted false imprisonment, sexual assault and common assault part-way through a previous trial.
Ibrahim must register as a sex offender for life, and Abou-Gardda for seven years.
The court heard Ibrahim and Abou-Gardda told the sex worker she would not have to “do anything” and gave her money to buy drugs.
She tried to leave after the pair, who were drinking alcohol, touched her but Ibrahim started to strangle her.
“She could not breathe and thought she was going to die,” prosecutor Phillip Standfast said.
The woman was then slapped, threatened and raped by Ibrahim.
‘Satisfy lust’
Sentencing the pair, Judge Ahmed Nadim said: “Each of you must understand that in a civilised society everyone has the right to decide whether sexual conduct is engaged in or not.
“You took away that right and imposed yourselves upon her in a violent and callous way.
“Neither of you cared about the damage you were doing to your victim… your priority was to satisfy your lust.”
El Fadaidill Ibrahim, a Sudanese asylum seeker who had been living in Queens Road, Halifax, had been granted temporary leave to remain in the UK in 2022 after his asylum applications in Italy and Germany had been rejected, a court heard.
Bradford Crown Court was told that the 29-year-old’s father and brothers had been killed in his native country after the government declared his tribe to be “terrorists” and Ibrahim himself had been jailed in the Sudan when he was just 14 on “fake” charges.
Solicitor advocate John Bottomley said his client fled Sudan in 2014 and in 2020 he had crossed the Channel in a small boat.
The court heard that in 2022 Ibrahim was granted leave to remain in this country for five years.
But in March 2023 Ibrahim and fellow countryman Mohammed Abou-Gardda, 30, persuaded a sex worker to visit them at Abou-Gardda’s flat in Pemberton Drive, off Great Horton Road, and subjected her to a four-hour ordeal.
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