The rapist was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh (Image: Daily Record)
Scottish Daily Express
By Ben Borland
A failed African asylum seeker was jailed for six years today after carrying out a rape attack on a sleeping woman at a city flat. Abdul Ibrahim pulled down the victim’s lower clothing during the sexual assault at an address in the Govan area of Glasgow before raping her.
A judge told Ibrahim, 42, at the High Court in Edinburgh: “This was, by any standard, a serious offence.”
Judge Norman McFadyen said that at the time of the sex crime the woman was “asleep and entitled to expect not to be molested in any way”.
He told the Somali sex predator that as a failed asylum seeker who was to be sentenced to a period of imprisonment in excess of 12 months he would be at “a very high risk of deportation” following his release from the jail term.
Ibrahim had denied raping the woman on September 23 in 2020 while she was asleep and incapable of consenting at an earlier trial, but was convicted of the offence.
Defence counsel Paul Nelson KC said that although Ibrahim has a criminal record he did not have previous convictions for sexual crimes.
He was previously acquitted on another sexual charge, but the Crown led evidence in relation to that to help secure a conviction for the rape after adding a docket to the indictment Ibrahim faced for the attack in 2020.
Mr Nelson said the author of a background report prepared on Ibrahim identified alcohol as a significant factor in his offending.
Ibrahim, who followed the court proceedings via a TV link to prison with the aid of an interpreter, was placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.