Stranger threatened woman with imitation gun then raped her in a Stockport park

Usama Al-Sari previously told his doctor of his ‘urges’ to rape, torture and kill women

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A stranger raped a lone woman in a Stockport park at gunpoint. On September 9 last year, Usama Al-Sari, 28, approached a woman as she sat on a bench in Heaton Mersey Park. Pointing a gun at her forehead he demanded her phone, which she freely gave over.

He then ordered her to have sex with him, stating: “Come with me and you won’t get hurt.” Daniel Calder, prosecuting, told Minshull Street Crown Court that as Al-Sari pushed the woman to go with him, he said: “I just want sex. If you have sex with me, I won’t hurt you.”

He guided the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, towards a wooded area of the park, saying: “I know I’m disgusting, I just want sex, I won’t hurt you.”

She stopped walking during one point in the ordeal, and Al-Sari grabbed her by the neck and threatened to kill her, the court heard. He told her: “We’re going to have sex,” before grabbing her breasts.

The woman told him she felt uncomfortable, and suggested they wait for another time, but he told her he ‘didn’t care’ before telling her: “I’m not a bad person, I’ve just had a hard childhood.” He also told her he was a virgin and said he had followed her from a local shop where she had been buying bread.

Mr Calder said: “He continued to push her towards the bushes. When she resisted, he said: ‘Do you want your phone back? Do you want your life? Either I kill you now and have sex with your dead corpse or we just have sex now’.”

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He went on to orally rape her. During the attack he told her: “Oh yeah, suck this smelly d***”. She was able to get up and run away, as Al-Sari was slowed by his trousers being down. The woman ran to a nearby pub where she alerted members of the public to the rape.

Meanwhile, Al-Sari had also called the police to report what he had done and was arrested. They found a small amount of cannabis on him, and he directed them to a bench where he had left the firearm. On further inspection it was found to be an air pistol.

“The defendant’s home address was searched. From a drawer in the kitchen, police recovered an empty box for a semi-automatic pistol and a quantity of pellets,” said Mr Calder. “From the bedroom, a sex doll was recovered. The doll’s arms were tied and bound with wire, and the doll had been burned and physically distressed.

“From the bed, a green backpack was recovered, which contained knives, a shovel, an axe, a chain and a fire starter.”

In a statement, the victim said she was suffering from serious ongoing impact, including flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, outbursts of rage and insomnia. She said she had become introverted, socially isolated, and lacked trust in men.

In a police interview, Al-Sari said he was experiencing ‘urges’ to rape, torture and kill women. He said he had been seeking help from his GP but the referrals had not resulted in any support.

Al-Sari’s medical records confirmed he attended his doctor’s in 2024 for help with his intrusive thoughts. “He stated that these urges occurred on a daily basis, and that he had been “managing” his urges through the consumption of pornography and the use of a “sex doll” to act out his sexual fantasies,” Mr Calder said.

“He was assessed by a psychiatrist as not having any secondary care needs, and was referred to Stockport Talking Therapies, who in March 2025 declined the referral on the basis that “Mr Al-Sari [was] not presenting with a problem treatable via Talking Therapies”.”

Two days later he attended at the emergency department, reporting his urges had become strong to the point they were preventing him from working. He was referred for a second time to Talking Therapies, who declined him again, stating he was ‘untreatable’.

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Al-Sari was then referred to the Adult Safeguarding Team at Pennine Care, and the police were informed. A number of meetings took place in which his risk was discussed and he was advised to seek specialist psychosexual psychological therapy at his own expense. He claimed he couldn’t afford the therapy and was advised to get funding.

Defending, Henry Blackshaw said his client was a ‘high risk’ to females. “He had taken proactive steps to try and fend off his thoughts. The remorse is genuine and heartfelt,” he said.

Reading from a letter written by Al-Sari, he said: “Not a day goes by I’m not thinking about it. All I want now is that they [the victim] can go on in life in peace and safety. I don’t think I will ever forgive myself for this or expect forgiveness from anyone. I have let down myself, my family, my friends, my church, my community and my country.”

Mr Blackshaw added: “He had an unhappy childhood, he found out his father was murdered from a young age and his mother died when he was 16. He clearly suffered depressive thoughts from a young age. There were growing sexual urges.”

Sentencing him as a dangerous offender under sentencing provisions, Judge Bernadette Baxter, said: “You were trying to deal with those thoughts and depression by watching porn and using a sex doll, but it didn’t work. It was making the situation worse, not better.”

Al-Sari, of Moorton Avenue, was jailed for 14 years with an extended licence of eight years. He was also slapped with a lifelong restraining order and Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO). He must also sign onto the Sex Offender’s Register for life.

He previously pleaded guilty to rape, sexual assault, kidnap with intent to commit a sexual offence, possession of a firearm, making threat to kill and possession of drugs.