HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nSpeaking to the Manchester Evening News, the woman said she is now a shell of her former self. Neither her, or the other victims, can be identified for legal reasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never thought something like that would happen to me. It has taken so much from me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI split up with my partner just before the sentencing. I should have opened up more and talked more to her.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s impacted me in so many different ways. It’s taken so much happiness from me. I\u2019ve become very analytical, seeing things that aren\u2019t there. I am full of hurt and pain and resentment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a shell of a person. It\u2019s like I\u2019ve got some other person inside of me that\u2019s not me. I\u2019m not me anymore, I look the same but I\u2019m not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said she has been left feeling \u2018ashamed, embarrassed and damaged\u2019. After the attack she said she turned to alcohol, and was drinking up to a litre of vodka a day to \u2018numb the pain\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used alcohol to numb things, then the next day I would be sober and it would make it ten times worse so I would feel I would have to drink again. It was a vicious cycle,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
She said the incident made her question her sexual identity, and made her push people away.<\/p>\n
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Manchester Crown Court, Crown Square(Image: M.E.N.)<\/p>\n
Speaking about the incident, she said the last thing she remembers was leaving the New Union pub, on Princess Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember going to leave, then it\u2019s a blank,\u201d she said. \u201cDid I say something? Did I do something? I don\u2019t know. Everything from then up until the location [of the incident], I haven\u2019t got a clue.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the trial earlier this year, CCTV was shown to the court of the incident where the woman was raped. When she gave evidence, she had to watch the footage and be quizzed about what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like watching myself on TV but it\u2019s not me. And I don\u2019t have a memory of it happening,\u201d she said. \u201cI had to watch it three times. They asked if I was OK to watch it and I said yes as I thought it would help, but I never wanted to see that.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of those people were looking at it and it was being analysed and I was being analysed.<\/p>\n
She described the trial process as \u2018absolutely shocking\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very nerve-wracking. When I got to being in that witness box, answering those questions, it was like I was the one on trial. Just horrible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She said the support she has received from Greater Manchester Police and her Independent Sexual Violence Adviser had been \u2018amazing\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do now feel I have got closure, he is in prison. He got his sentence. It\u2019s not just justice for me, it\u2019s justice for everybody,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI refuse now, despite everything that\u2019s happened, to let this define me anymore. I want to get better. I just want to be me again.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cFor anyone else going through anything similar, I would tell them to talk, be open and honest, and make sure you talk to someone, don’t bottle it up. Make sure you report it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police were there to help and they were amazing. At the time, I just thought if I don’t talk about it it’s going to eat me up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The court heard that another of Malki\u2019s victim, a male, was visiting Manchester for work purposes in June last year. During the night they had gone out for a few drinks in The Village, before he went outside for a cigarette by himself.<\/p>\n
He was then approached by the defendant before they walked to Richmond Street. \u201cHe cannot remember the conversation or why he would then leave with this male,\u201d said prosecutor Emma Kehoe.<\/p>\n
The defendant then \u2018aggressively\u2019 raped him twice in an alleyway before stealing his phone. He also stole his watch and gold necklace, which was a gift from his late grandmother.<\/p>\n
Another male had gone for a night out with his partner in the city centre in July. During the evening they became separated and he went to look for him outside. He described himself as \u2018very intoxicated and disorientated\u2019.<\/p>\n
He decided to return to the hotel but didn\u2019t know the way, and was approached by Malki who offered to help, acting as a \u2018Good Samaritan\u2019.<\/p>\n
The defendant then took him on a \u2018completely different and wrong route\u2019. As the man began to question the trip, Malki pushed him down and raped him. The man later realised his phone and wallet were missing.<\/p>\n
Using \u2018Find my iPhone\u2019, it showed his phone was located on Cheetham Hill Road. There were also unsuccessful attempts to use a bank card. Malki has since pleaded guilty to theft against him and a fraud offence.<\/p>\n
He denied the sexual offences, but was found guilty of five counts of rape, one of theft and one of fraud. He had previously pleaded guilty to three offences of theft.<\/p>\n
Malki, 39, of no fixed abode, was jailed for life to serve a minimum period of 16 years in prison. Of that he must serve two thirds of the term, namely 14 years and 291 days before he will be considered safe to be released into the community by the Parole Board.<\/p>\n
He was also placed onto the Sex Offenders Register for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mourad Malki was jailed for lifeMourad Malki, also known as Sid Ali Djelid(Image: GMP) A woman who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,30,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-537139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115462023972842280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537139","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=537139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Mourad Malki, also known as Sid Ali Djelid(Image: GMP)<\/p>\n