Asylum seeker who came to Britain on small boat is jailed for raping woman after she left nightclub
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**Asylum seeker who came to Britain on small boat is jailed for raping woman after she left nightclub**
>A ‘predatory’ asylum seeker who arrived in the UK on a small boat has been jailed for more than eight years after raping a woman who was so drunk she couldn’t remember the attack.
>Eritrean Dan Tesfalul, 27, attacked his victim in a busy city centre after she left a nightclub and only fled when he was challenged by a security guard.
>The defendant, who arrived in the UK in 2022, bought drinks for the woman and followed her outside when she went to get food.
>He then forced himself on her on a patch of grass near a car park in Norwich city centre.
>Details of the case emerged in the week Home Secretary Yvette Cooper revealed plans to make it easier to deport asylum seekers convicted of sex offences.
>The announcement came as it emerged the number of Channel migrant crossings this year had passed 10,000 – more than a month earlier than in 2024 and six weeks earlier than 2023.
>Jailing Tesfalul for eight years and three months with another five years on licence, Judge Alice Robinson told him he was an ‘extremely dangerous’ offender who had shown a ‘predatory sexual manner’ towards the victim he ‘specifically targeted’ as she was unable to defend herself due to drink.
>She added: ‘This was a horrific attack on a lone, intoxicated female in the middle of the night, resulting in a number of bruises – and deep distress.’
>The woman Tesfalul attacked bravely read out her victim impact statement at Norwich Crown Court, saying: ‘It was such a horrible attack when I was at my most vulnerable.’
>Revealing she was now ‘scared of being out alone in case it might happen again’, she continued: ‘I feel scared of men and feel they are out to get me and rape me too.
>‘It’s horrible to feel scared of every man you see when in the city and in the shops.’
>Tesfalul was staying in the Best Western Brook Hotel – one of two Norwich hotels used by the Home Office to provide temporary accommodation for asylum seekers – at the time of the attack on May 2, 2024.
>He had been out drinking when he saw the woman in Qube nightclub on the city’s busy Prince of Wales Road.
>After plying her with drinks, she went outside to get some food and he followed her before raping her near the car park.
>Prosecutor Stephen Spence said although the woman was too drunk to remember what happened, a woman leaving the car park heard her ‘screaming out’ and called police.
>Other passers-by saw what was happening and Tesfalul pulled up his trousers and ran off when a car park security guard approached him.
>The defendant was arrested a short distance away minutes later.
>Tesfalul was initially charged with raping the women three times on the same occasion but two of the offences were allowed to lie on file after he admitted one count.
>The court was told that he had been studying for a psychology degree in his home country before leaving in 2018 and eventually arriving in the UK on a small boat three years ago.
>He was granted leave to remain in November 2023 and was studying software development when he committed the rape.
>Matthew Sorel-Cameron, defending, said his client knew his victim ‘will have to live with the consequences of his actions’ and was ‘deeply sorry and profoundly ashamed’ for the suffering he had caused.
>Tesfalul’s father had died while ‘crossing the Mediterranean in a boat when the defendant was four or five’, he added.
>The defendant was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely and given a restraining order banning him from contacting his victim directly or indirectly for 15 years.
>Detective Constable Dave Block, of Norfolk Police, said after the sentencing: ‘I would like to commend the members of the public who intervened in this incident, the police officers who attended swiftly and professionally, and, most of all, the victim who has engaged with us throughout the investigation.’
>Any offender given a jail term of a year or more – as well as war criminals or terrorists – can be refused asylum and deported from the UK under the Refugee Convention at present.
>Ms Cooper said on Monday that the government would widen this to include anyone convicted of a crime that led to them being placed on the sex offenders register in the UK, regardless of the length of their sentence.
>She said this would ‘ensure these appalling crimes are taken seriously’ but the Conservatives dismissed the move as ‘too little, too late’.
>The Home Office was approached for a comment.
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I’m starting to think maybe some illegal migrants are fleeing their country for illegal things they done…
And he’ll be deported after his sentence I assume, let’s all unite against easy deportations like this no matter your political stance.
>Details of the case emerged in the week Home Secretary Yvette Cooper revealed plans to make it easier to deport asylum seekers convicted of sex offences.
Here is an idea, how about you make it easier to deport migrants who have committed ***any*** offenses?
Seriously any foreigner weather illegal or not should be deported for any crime and banned from returning and serve prison sentence in their own country.
Why am I not surprised?
Another day, another Daily Hail hate stirring article. Just don’t look at how the rich owners and their friends are picking your pockets.
Jewish refugee arrested for horrible crime!
– Daily Mail, 1936,, between ‘the reds did Guernica’ and ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!’
Same as every other rapist.
There should be harsher sentences for all. Absolute scum
and we put it up in a cosy prison on the tax payers expense
Stop the fucking boats!
As an immigrant myself, I can’t imagine being admitted into a foreign country as a humanitarian act and repaying one’s host with violent crime.
As an aside, one upside of the U.K. taking in questionable elements is that other parts of the world are concomitantly safer – the U.K. has unwittingly become a sacrificial anode.
Jailed? Deport
Now he does his jail time and then come up with reasons and excuses to why he can’t be deported
This happens A LOT.
It shouldnt be up for discussion.
These people need deporting straight away.
He should be deported now and serve his sentence in the country he fled from.
Lucy Powell enters the chat….
‘More of your dog whistle nonsense’
Lucy Powell exits the chat
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