Kurdish asylum seeker who was residing in Staffordshire hotel jailed for rape of 18-year-old woman in park
A Kurdish asylum seeker has been jailed for seven years after raping an 18-year-old woman in a park just days after meeting her through a social media app
Mehmet Ogur has been jailed for seven years for raping an 18-year-old woman in a park days after meeting her via a social media app.
Stafford Crown Court was told the 27-year-old, who was living at the Holiday Inn Express in Tamworth, forced himself on his victim last summer and later sent her messages amounting to a “full and complete” admission.
Ogur was found guilty of rape and attempted rape at a trial last summer, after denying any wrongdoing and claiming Google Translate had altered the meaning of the messages.
Passing sentence, Judge John Edwards told Ogur, who was assisted in the dock by a Turkish interpreter, that the rape had caused “immense harm” to the victim.
The judge told Ogur, who is understood to have arrived in Britain on a small boat weeks before the attack: “Your continued stay in the United Kingdom will be for others to determine, not for me.”
