An Algerian immigrant illegally living in the UK who raped a university student in a terrifying city centre attack has been jailed for eight and faces deportation.
Marwen Darwish, 23, found the victim drunk and distressed in Newcastle, then carried her into a secluded alleyway and raped her.
After the sex attack he ‘added insult to injury’ by stealing the woman’s mobile phone, which he later sold in Manchester.
Newcastle Crown Court heard the woman was unconscious and does not remember what the stranger did to her during the attack, which was captured on CCTV.
Darwish, of Parish Court, Byker, Newcastle, admitted rape, theft and possessing a small amount of class C drug and now faces automatic deportation on completion of an eight year jail sentence.
He will be on the sex offenders register for life.
The court heard the student had been out in Newcastle city centre, drinking to excess and was in a ‘highly vulnerable and distressed state’ when she was targeted in the early hours of the morning.
Mr Recorder Tony Hawks told Darwish: ‘Any decent human being, seeing her in that condition, would have gone to her assistance or called the emergency services.
‘You did neither. What you did was in fact to carry her to a secluded alleyway and took advantage of her condition.
‘Fortunately she has no recollection of that.’
Recorder Hawks added: ‘Having raped her and stolen from her you walked away with utter contempt for her well being or safety.
‘It is inevitable that any conduct of this sort will have a lasting effect on the victim, regardless of whether they can remember what happened or not.
‘It is apparent your behaviour has had a serious effect on that young woman’s enjoyment of her life.’
Recorder Hawks said it is hoped the fact that Darwish will serve a prison sentence and then be automatically deported may help her put her life back together.
He added that Darwish will serve two thirds of the jail term imposed then be subject to automatic deportation.
The court heard has no previous convictions recorded against him.Penny Hall, defending, said Darwish was not out looking for vulnerable women that night.
Miss Hall added: ‘Clearly he will be deported.’
Prosecutor Claire Wright, of CPS North East, said: ‘Marwen Darwish claimed in his first interview with police that he had only met a woman in a bar that evening before leaving by himself.
‘Unbeknown to him, his movements had been captured on various CCTV cameras around the city. As well as showing him targeting the woman, who was barely capable of walking at the time, it also showed him leading her to a secluded spot in the New Bridge Street area and committing the offences before fleeing the scene.
‘On being presented with the CCTV, Darwish then claimed that he had carried out these acts with full consent from the woman involved.
‘However, it is very clear from the evidence that his victim was so heavily intoxicated that she lacked the capacity to give informed consent.
‘Darwish’s actions following the attack also suggested that he was aware that he had forced himself upon his victim against her will.’
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