How two Nigerians drugged, raped 15-yr-old girl in London

n n

A predator and his accomplice have been jailed for a total of 21 years after raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl who was plied with alcohol and drugs, Daily Mail reports.

n

Read Also: Nigerian extradited from South Africa jailed 90 months for fraud in US

n

Nigerian national Akinsanya, 34, and 29-year-old Raji targeted their victim after buying her drinks at Irish pub Paddy’s Yard in Brixton, south London, on February 8 last year.

n

They invited the girl and some of her friends back to Raji’s flat to smoke cannabis and dance.

n

The victim’s friends tried to persuade her to leave with them as they felt uncomfortable but she started blacking out and collapsed, Inner London Crown Court heard.

n

The defendants then put the girl through a prolonged ordeal, with Raji filming her.

n

Prosecutor Diana Wilson read to the court the victim’s impact statement, in which she told of now finding it ‘hard to trust people’.

n

The schoolgirl described her attackers as ‘disgusting’, while also rejecting the offer to watch the footage of what happened because it was ‘too stressful’.

n

Akinsanya, from South Croydon, denied but was convicted by a jury of rape and has now been jailed for 10 years.

n

Raji, from Brixton, denied but was convicted of two counts of rape and one of taking an indecent image of a child and was given 11 years behind bars.

n

The girl said in her statement: ‘I was in year 10 at school when I was raped – my school life was affected a lot. ‘I didn’t want to go to my lessons.

n

‘I find it hard to trust people. I’m in year 11 now, I still feel like my school life is being affected by the rape.’

n

The court heard how she has stopped playing football, the only sport she liked, due to a loss of confidence following the attack.

n

She was asked to watch the video Raji took of her naked but had to stop, saying: ‘I found it too stressful.’

n

The victim added: ‘The men who did this to me are disgusting – I can’t find the words to describe them. These men must go to prison.’

n

Ms Wilson said the girl was ‘particularly vulnerable due to her personal circumstances’, adding: ‘She was young and naive and vulnerable and unconscious.

n

‘We have a sociable, outgoing 15-year-old who’s cut off from friends, cannot leave her house, impacting her schoolwork and feels unable to go to counselling.

n

‘It may be thought that that’s beyond the normal level of psychological harm.’

n

Ms Wilson told how both defendants ‘took advantage of an unconscious girl’.

n

William Pope, defending Raji, asked for his previous good character to be taken into account.

n

The defence lawyer pointed to Raji’s evidence suggesting the girls the pair met said they were aged over 18, with Mr Pope adding: ‘He thinks he had a one-night stand.’

n

Judge David Richards said it should have been obvious the girls were underage from their behaviour, saying: ‘The whole tenor of that group is of schoolgirls’.

n

Defending Akinsanya, Anne Faul described him as ‘a lost soul, somewhat vulnerable’.

n

She also told the court he was partially paralysed from an attack, meaning prison life was more difficult for him.

n

Sentencing, Judge Richards said of the victim: ‘She’s lost her self-confidence. She can no longer go out. She will live with this for the rest of her life.’

n

He told the two culprits: ‘The fact that you two abused her one after the other clearly aggravates the matter. The victim was harmed for a long time.

n

‘Alcohol was used to render her vulnerable, the effect of the alcohol was exploited by both of you. Whilst incapable, she was raped by both of you.’ DailyMail.

n n