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<\/p>\nA 27-year-old Qatari camel herder has been found guilty on two attempted rape charges with his victim being left “frozen with fear” during the attacks.<\/p>\n
Nasser Al-Gherainiq was convicted at Southwark Crown Court following an assault that took place at a private medical facility connected to Royal Brompton Hospital in south-west London.<\/p>\n
The defendant, who had travelled to Britain for specialist heart treatment, attacked a woman by forcing her into a toilet cubicle at the medical centre.<\/p>\n
Al-Gherainiq joins a long list of foreign offenders in UK prisons, now representing nearly one-in-eight (12 per cent) prisoners in our overcrowded jails.<\/p>\n
Al-Gherainiq received a seven-year sentence<\/p>\n
Met Police<\/p>\n
The Qatari national comes from a conservative Bedouin tribe in Qatar’s desert regions, where he worked herding camels with minimal exposure to urban or contemporary life.<\/p>\n
The court heard he had never left Qatar before arriving in the UK in 2023 for treatment of a rare cardiac condition.<\/p>\n
His barrister described him as having had little interaction with the outside world prior to his journey to London.<\/p>\n
Speaking through an Arabic interpreter during proceedings, Al-Gherainiq appeared in court wearing standard grey prison clothing.<\/p>\n
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Al-Gherainiq assaulted the women at Royal Brompton Hospital<\/p>\n Google Maps<\/p>\n Defence counsel characterised him as “equivalent to an immature and inexperienced adolescent” who came from what they described as a different era.<\/p>\n The defence argued that profound cultural differences meant Al-Gherainiq did not understand how to interact with women and “completely failed to understand” his victim’s “true feelings”.<\/p>\n His legal team claimed he was unaware the woman had not consented when he pulled her into the toilet cubicle and attacked her.<\/p>\n However, the jury dismissed the arguments.<\/p>\n Al-Gherainiq was convicted at Southwark Crown Court<\/p>\n PA<\/p>\n The judge told Al-Gherainiq: “You knew perfectly well what you were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n The case raised several unanswered questions about how Al-Gherainiq arrived in Britain, who funded his medical treatment and travel, and his accommodation arrangements whilst in London.<\/p>\n Al-Gherainiq had spent over a year on remand before standing trial, having first appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in August 2023 after his arrest.<\/p>\n He was sentenced to seven years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old Qatari camel herder has been found guilty on two attempted rape charges with his victim being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,257,12,512,16,1259,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sgg","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-uk-news","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114760215876106482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220937","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=220937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\\u200bAl-Gherainiq](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/u200bal-gherainiq-assaulted-the-women-at-royal-brompton-hospital.png\")
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