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A SNOG IS NOT A LICENCE TO RAPE
JAIL FOR ATTACK TRIO
BY STEVE MCCOMISH
THREE Iraqi asylum seekers who sexually brutalised a woman of 25 were each jailed for eight years yesterday - after being told a kiss was "not a licence to rape".
Star Ahmad, Mohedin Amin and Sahid Sherwan were condemned as "abominable" by Judge Michael Heath, who recommended they be deported at the end of their sentences.
The trio subjected their "devastated" victim to a horrific ordeal after she got into their car - wrongly thinking it was a taxi - as she left a nightspot "merry" but not drunk.
The men later claimed she agreed to sex after she'd shared a passionate dancefloor kiss with Sherwan. But Judge Heath said: "She was open and friendly ... a passionate snog is not a licence to go on and defile women.
"The way you behaved was an outrage. You wickedly abused her. It was a horrid, terrifying, degrading and humiliating experience."
The two-week trial had heard how the "decent" young woman was shepherded into 23-year-old Sherwan's people-carrier in April after leaving the Loaded club in Spalding, Lincs. She was driven to an industrial estate where Ahmad, 33, and then Amin, 29, raped her on the back seat.
She was later discovered half-naked and crying hysterically after managing to flee the car.
She admitted "having a bit of a kiss that wasn't the sort you give your mum and dad" - but denied ever asking for sex.
Ahmad and Amin, of Little London, Spalding, denied rape while their neighbour Sherwan denied aiding and abetting the assaults.
At Lincoln crown court Judge Heath dismissed claims she had "enthusiastically participated" and said: "You sullied her good name. You have behaved in such an abominable way towards an innocent woman that in my judgement your continued presence is detrimental to this country."
The Home Secretary will ultimately decide if the trio, who were also ordered to register as sex offenders for life, should be deported.
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