{"id":256208,"date":"2025-07-11T12:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256208\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:53:21","slug":"sheffield-man-jailed-20-years-after-raping-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256208\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield man jailed 20 years after raping woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court heard that Khan became physically and verbally abusive after having known the woman for about a year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After he tried to have sex with her at the picnic, she ran away but Khan caught her then raped her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior investigator Kath Blain, from the NCA&#8217;s Operation Stovewood, said: &#8220;When the victim first met Khan he showed no signs of being violent, however after gaining the woman&#8217;s trust Khan became abusive and that behaviour quickly escalated to sexual violence.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NCA began an investigation in 2022 after it identified the woman was a victim of rape in the course of separate inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Khan was charged in February 2024 and sentenced on the same day he was found guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Blain said: &#8220;Our evidence and the victim&#8217;s brave testimony has resulted in Khan being convicted more than 20 years after he committed his crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;I urge anyone who has been raped or sexually abused, at any time in their life, to report it to the police, who are ready and waiting to help.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court heard that Khan became physically and verbally abusive after having known the woman for about a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-256208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114834702551990460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256208","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=256208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}