{"id":614112,"date":"2025-12-05T15:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/614112\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:59:12","slug":"twelve-years-for-birmingham-sex-beast-who-raped-teen-he-met-on-flat-finder-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/614112\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve years for Birmingham sex beast who raped teen he met on flat-finder app"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mirza Begg, 34, told the victim she could live with him for free but showed her cache of weapoms before brutally attacking her\"MirzaMirza Begg.(Image: Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n

A rapist who strangled and threatened to kill an 18-year-old woman hours after meeting her on a flatmate-finder app has been jailed for 12 years.<\/p>\n

Mirza Begg showed his victim \u201ca sinister-looking\u201d cache of weaponry including knives, a sword and bullets, before raping and sexually assaulting her at his home in Birmingham<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

Jurors convicted the 34-year-old, of Coventry Road, Small Heath<\/a>, of rape in September after hearing he lured the teenager to his flat with the promise of allowing her to live there.<\/p>\n

Begg, who claimed all sexual contact with the victim had been consensual, was also found guilty of two charges of assault by penetration, intentional strangulation, making threats with a bladed weapon, and assault.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Joshua Purser told Birmingham Crown Court today, Friday, December 5, that the victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was deliberately put in fear and subdued by being shown the weapons before she was attacked.<\/p>\n

She was then held against her will and \u201chad to be rescued\u201d by police after messaging a friend to say she had been assaulted.<\/p>\n

Begg\u2019s trial heard the \u201cextremely vulnerable\u201d woman contacted him on the Roomies app, and had been picked up by him in a car he borrowed from a relative.<\/p>\n

The offender, who has previous convictions for battery and theft, appeared at his sentencing hearing via a prison videolink, having refused to help probation staff prepare a pre-sentence report.<\/p>\n

Mr Purser told the court: \u201cWe submit the use of the app was demonstrative of his planning \u2013 a deliberate trap by which he could conjure up a pretence to bring a female into his flat with no witnesses. There was not a single moment of consensual sexual activity despite what he said at trial.\u201d<\/p>\n

Passing sentence, Judge Simon Drew KC said the six offences committed by Begg, who was ordered to register as a sex offender for life, constituted \u201cvery serious\u201d offending.<\/p>\n

Begg, who told the victim he was recently divorced and looking for someone to share his home, had intended to entice the woman to live at his flat, the judge said.<\/p>\n

When the woman resisted, the court heard, Begg had sworn at her, told her to \u201cdeal with it\u201d and then sexually assaulted her despite repeated attempts to fight him off.<\/p>\n

Begg also slapped the victim and, having finished sexually assaulting her, used a knife to threaten her. Eventually Begg fell asleep, the police were contacted and he was arrested, the judge said.<\/p>\n

Judge Drew told Begg: \u201cThis was an extremely serious offence in which you had deliberately planned to lure the victim to your home and she was clearly someone who was young \u2013 almost half your age \u2013 and you targeted her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Begg was told he would have to serve two-thirds of his sentence in custody before being released on licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mirza Begg, 34, told the victim she could live with him for free but showed her cache of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10386,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-614112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-crown-court","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614112","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=614112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}