A British asylum seeker has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison after R@Ping a drunk woman doesn’t remember the attack.
Eritrean Dan Tesfalul, 27, left a nightclub and attacked his victims in a busy city center, only fleeing when he was challenged by security personnel, according to The Post Online.
The defendant arrived in the UK in 2022, bought drinks for the woman and followed her outside while she went to eat food. He then forced himself near a parking lot in downtown Norwich.
Details of the case of the Interior Department Secretary Yvette Cooper this week reveal asylum seekers who plan to be more likely to be convicted of sexual offences.
The news comes from the number of channel immigrants traveling this year, 10,000 earlier than 2024 than 2023.
Judge Alice Robinson, who jailed Tesfalul for eight years and three months and had another five years of permit, told him that he was an “extremely dangerous” criminal who showed “predatory sexual ways” to victims who were “specially targeted” because she was unable to defend herself due to alcohol.
She added: “This is a terrorist attack on a lonely, intoxicating female, causing many bruises and deep troubles.”
Tesfalul, who bravely read her victim impact statement at Norwich Crown Court, said: “It was a horrible attack when I was most vulnerable.”
She revealed that she is now “fearing to go out alone just in case it may happen again”, and she continued: “I’m afraid of men and think they can take me and me too.
“It’s so scary when you see everyone you’re in the city and in the shops.”
Tesfalul stays at the Western Brook Hotel, one of two Norwich hotels in which the home office offers temporary accommodation for asylum seekers during the May 2, 2024 attack.
He had been drinking when he saw the woman on the Qube Nightclub on the city’s busy Princes Road in Wales.
After pairing her with wine, she went out to buy some food, and he followed her and raped her near the parking lot.
Prosecutor Stephen Spence said that while the woman was too drunk to remember what was going on, a woman leaving the parking lot heard her “screaming” and called police.
Other passersby saw what was going on, and when a parking lot security officer approached him, Tesfalul lifted his pants and ran away.
A few minutes later, the defendant was arrested.
Tesfalul was initially charged with raping a woman three times on the same occasion, but two of the offences were allowed to lie after he pleaded guilty to one count.
The court was told he had been studying his psychology degree in his home country before leaving in 2018 and eventually arrived in the UK by boat three years ago.
He was granted a leave of absence in November 2023 and was working on software development at the time of rape.
Matthew Sorel-Cameron, defending, said his client knew his victims “will have to endure the consequences of his actions” and felt “deeply sorry and deeply ashamed” of the suffering he caused.
He added that Tesfalure’s father died “when the defendant was four to five years old, crossing the Mediterranean.”
The defendant was placed indefinitely on the register of S£X offenders and signed a restraining order that prohibited him from contacting the victim directly or indirectly for 15 years.
“I want to commend the members of the public who have been involved in this incident, the police who have participated in this incident, and, most importantly, the victims who have been engaged to us throughout the investigation,” said Dave Block, a detective at the Norfolk Police Department, after his sentencing.
Any offender who has been imprisoned for one year or more and war criminals or terrorists can be denied asylum and deported from the UK under the current refugee convention.
Ms Cooper said on Monday that the government would widen this, including anyone convicted of a crime, resulting in their being placed on the UK’s S£X criminal registry, regardless of their sentence.
This will “make sure these shocking crimes are taken seriously,” she said, but conservatives see the move as “too little, too late.”
