{"id":163553,"date":"2025-06-06T17:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163553\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:57:11","slug":"man-jailed-for-raping-and-assaulting-woman-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163553\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for raping and assaulting woman in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cornel Filipeche, aged 21 and of Hawthorn Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perry Barr<\/a>, was sentenced to 10 years after pleading guilty to rape, robbery and causing grievous bodily harm at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham Crown Court<\/a> today (June 6).<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Walsall Road, Perry Barr, in the early hours of January 18 to reports that a woman had been attacked and raped.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5ffc9f43-a073-447a-8e3b-72c7d2a5a279.png\"   alt=\"Cornel Filipeche has been jailed after admitting to rape, robbery and grevious bodily harm\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Cornel Filipeche has been jailed after admitting to rape, robbery and grevious bodily harm<\/p>\n<p>Police appealed for CCTV and information to identify the offender. Three days after the appeal was launched, Filipeche was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Following a further investigation, including evidence given by the brave victim, Filipeche was charged with rape, robbery and causing grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to all three charges on February 20 and this week was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison, with an extended five-year licence period.<\/p>\n<p>He will also be required to sign onto the sex offenders register for life.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Emma Watson, from West Midlands Police&#8217;s Public Protection unit, said: &#8220;I want to thank the victim for her bravery in coming forward and reporting this to us. Her actions may have saved other victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWest Midlands Police encourages anyone who has suffered abuse to come forward. You will be supported, and you will be believed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cornel Filipeche, aged 21 and of Hawthorn Road, Perry Barr, was sentenced to 10 years after pleading guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-163553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114637717306293807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}