Mustafa Yussuf was the first to prey on the woman as she walked through Manchester city centre on New year’s Eve, marching her into Church Street car park and raping her in a nearby lane.
It was then that, instead of assisting
her, another man pounced on the woman and raped her.
The distressing details of the double
rape emerged as Yussuf, now 21, from Manchester, was jailed for seven
years for the attack.
He claimed to have had a consensual
encounter with the woman but denied rape.
But a jury at Manchester Crown Court trial rejected his account and found him guilty.
Judge Martin Steiger QC, sentencing,
said he ‘hadn’t the slightest doubt’ that Yussuf was ‘perfectly aware’ the woman
was too drunk to consent to any activity.
The court heard that the ‘mature’ woman
had drunk to excess because of relationship problems, with CCTV showing she was
unable to stand.
She was refused re-entry to the
nightclub when she asked to be allowed in to search for her lost
handbag.
In the aftermath of the double-rape
attack she needed strangers’ help to get home and she was unable to remember
what had happened to her for two hours.
Zoe Nield, defending, said: ‘This
offence does appear to be an isolated incident – it was out of character for
this defendant.’
The victim told court that her life had
been shattered by the attack and had been isolated by a fear of going
out.
Judge Steiger said: ‘At some point in
the course of her ordeal she was raped by another individual.
‘There was never any charge laid
against this defendant [Yussuf] for being party to that incident, which the
complainant found in many ways the most traumatic feature of her
ordeal.’
Another man was arrested for the second
rape but released without charge
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