'Predatory' rapist jailed for 15 years for Poole sex attack

Hasan Kyoybasha, 30 and of Ashley Road, Poole, was found guilty of rape and sexual assault by penetration following a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.

The court heard he “pestered, badgered and followed” the victim, despite her making it clear that she was not interested and that he should go away.

Judge Jonathan Fuller QC said statements from the woman showed the sex attack in Branksome had had an “extreme impact” upon her. He also said she was vulnerable when Kyoybasha carried out the offences.

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He concluded that the defendant posed a significant risk to members of the public of serious harm through further offending and handed down an extended sentence.

Judge Fuller QC said: “He clearly went out looking for sex that evening and his actions show that his targets were single lone women and he remained, not withstanding the victim’s rejections, in her company with a view, a hope, an expectation that he would have sex with her.

"His manoeuvring on his cycle shows that he was as the prosecution say stalking and his actions throughout that period contrivance and his planning.”

Kyoybasha received a 15-year prison term with a four-year extended licence period.

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The defendant was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday, April 8

He will not be considered for release by the Parole Board until he has completed two-thirds of the prison term.

The court heard at the sentencing hearing on April 8 that the victim had been on a night out with a friend in Triangle area of Bournemouth when she left alone.

She was “worse for wear”, with CCTV showing her confused journey that led to her being in Westbourne when the friend’s house she was staying at was in Boscombe.

The defendant, who worked in a kebab shop, had been out alone in the early hours on September 5 last year at Cameo in Bournemouth town centre.

He left the club shortly before 4am and made his way back towards his home on his bicycle.

After his apparent advances towards another woman walking alone were rejected, he came across the victim by chance.

Judge Fuller said she made it “quite clear from the outset” that she was not interested in his approaches.

CCTV played in court showed the defendant following the victim in Poole Road, Branksome

The first woman he approached saw the defendant engaging with the victim and such was her concern she phoned police – but no action was taken by the force that night.

The judge praised this woman for her actions to call police during his sentencing remarks.

Kyoybasha “exploited” the vulnerability of the victim, who was aged in her 30s, the judge concluded.

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CCTV compiled by police detectives showed the defendant was following or alongside the victim for around an hour and 45 minutes that night.

“Towards the end of the journey having followed her relentlessly, I am quite satisfied that you took the opportunity in one way or another to pull or drag her, whether by a bear hug, which was suggested in one account that was given to the police, off the road and out of sight,” said Judge Fuller QC.

The judge said the defendant then with force pushed the victim to the ground, removed her underwear and carried out the sexual assault.

During the rape he grabbed at her face and shouted words that she could not understand.

After sexually assaulting the woman outside near Pottery Junction, Kyoybasha “simply left her lying in the dirt on the ground outside somebody’s house”.

The offender surrendered to police after the force issued a public appeal including his image, which was seen by his boss, who went with him to the police station.

The judge said in interview the defendant gave a completely false account of what happened, while at trial he invented a new story to attempt to explain DNA evidence obtained by police and the CCTV evidence that contradicted the statement he had previously given.

Two victim personal statements were read to the court by prosecutor Tom Horder.

“The man that did this to me took away a part of me and I just cannot seem to get it back," the victim said.

“I just cannot seem to find it and this makes me very sad.”

Mr Horder told the court: "The prosecution submit it was a predatory attack by a stranger on a vulnerable woman walking alone at night."

Representing Kyoybasha, Richard Tutt said the defendant had no previous convictions and was a man of good character.

The court heard the defendant still denied the offence and had no shown any remorse when interviewed by the probation service following his conviction.

As reported, jurors found Kyoybasha guilty of both offences following just shy of two hours of deliberations after a seven day trial in March.

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