Idreez Popoola. A Nigerian, living
illegally in the United
Kingdom and who was twice spared
deportation has been convicted and
sentenced for rape.
According to Mail Online, Idreez
Popoola, 34, will finally be sent back to
Nigeria when he is released from a
seven-year jail term imposed after the
attack on his victim's home.
A court heard that Popoola came to the
UK on a 12-month visa in 2005, but
when it expired he was given
permission to remain on a temporary
basis. But when Popoola was arrested
by
Northamptonshire Police in December
2011 over an allegation of assault he
was found to be an 'overstayer' – an
immigrant who had not left the country
by an agreed date.
Although no charges followed the
alleged assault, Popoola – by now
married with a child – was told he
would
be deported.
However, he successfully appealed the
ruling, arguing that the Human Rights
Act provided him with the right to a
family life.
Northampton Crown Court heard that
Popoola, who worked as a nightclub
bouncer, was granted temporary leave
to remain in the UK again in January
last year, after his family circumstances
were taken into account.
But 11 months later he went on to
brutally rape a woman in her own
home.
The court heard Popoola met his victim
while working as an agency-employed
bouncer outside Bar So in Northampton
town centre.
Popoola, who sold mobile phone top-up
cards in Nigeria before moving to the
UK, is thought to have lived in Oxford
before settling in Thornton Heath,
South London, where he trained as a
bouncer and gained work with an
agency which supplied a Northampton
nightclub.
Gordon Aspden, prosecuting, said
Popoola met his victim at a McDonald's
restaurant in the town. After going back
to her home he attacked her, then
forced her to drive him to a train
station.
Popoola was sentenced to seven years
after being found guilty of rape
following a four-day trial.
Judge Lynn Tayton told him: 'It was a
serious aggravating factor that the rape
took place in the victim's own home, as
this was an abuse of the trust placed in
you by the victim and has undermined
her feelings of safety in her own space.'
source:www.daillybook..com/2013/11/nigerian-jailed-for-rape-in-uk.html?m=1