A Nigerian student in the UK, Ekene Anoliefo ,38, convicted
and jailed for rape charges is set for deportation. The rapist, who claimed
deporting him from the United Kingdom would breach his human rights, will be
sent home to Nigeria after losing an appeal against the order.
Mr Justice Blake said the public interest in getting
“dangerous sexual predator” Anoliefo, 38, out of the country far outweighed his
right to respect for his private life.
Anoliefo was jailed for 12 years, later reduced to nine, in
May 2009 after he was convicted of the brutal rape of a 19-year-old, who he
held captive in his car after pretending to help her.
The Nigerian student who is said to be studying Computer studies drove the young woman to his
Aberdeen flat, forced her onto his bed and raped her in what the sentencing judge
described as “particularly brutal and degrading” circumstances.
He was ordered for deportation last December and now, after
an appeal to the Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, has failed in
his human rights’ bid to be allowed to stay.
Anoliefo’s lawyers had argued that he had lawfully lived in
the UK for four years as a student and had hoped to be granted indefinite leave
to remain once he finished his studies and found a job.
But rejecting his appeal, Mr Justice Blake said a more
substantial private life would need to be shown in a case where someone had not
previously had indefinite leave to stay in the country.
“It is unfortunate that permission to appeal was granted,
since this appeal is wholly without merit,” he said.
“It is obvious that, where a claimant has been convicted of
rape and the conviction upheld on appeal, no properly self-directing judge
could have done other than to have dismissed the appeal on the basis that the
public interest manifestly outweighed it.”
In sentencing Anoliefo to a 12-year jail term, which was
later reduced to nine years, Lord Pentland said: “You are, in my judgment, a
dangerous and determined sexual predator who has not the slightest respect for
women.”
Passing sentence at the High Court in Edinburgh, the judge
said he had to reflect society’s abhorrence.
Anoliefo listened through an interpreter as defence QC
Donald MacLeod told how he had brought shame on his wealthy family.
His father is a politician in his local state parliament,
the court heard, and had paid for Anoliefo to come to Scotland to study
computer technology to prepare him for a career in the Nigerian oil industry.
Mr MacLeod also told the court that Anoliefo still
maintained he was innocent although a jury had found him guilty.
Lord Pentland said: “You stand convicted of a series of
incidents involving the assault, molestation and harassment of six women and a
female child in the streets of Aberdeen over a period extending from the autumn
of 2007 to the summer of 2008.
“In addition to these serious offences, you have been
convicted of the cruel and degrading rape of a young woman whom you detained
against her will in your car after you had pretended to help her late at night.
“The sentence I impose must reflect the abhorrence that
society feels towards persons like you who prey on women in this way and who
are willing to resort to violence and rape for their own sexual gratification.”
He added: “I note that you have not, at any stage, expressed
the slightest degree of remorse or empathy for your victims.”
The judge said he would also recommend a deportation order
due to the gravity of the crimes.
Grampian Police Det Sgt Neil Kennedy, the officer in charge
of the investigation, said: “This sentence sends a clear message to those
prepared to commit these appalling and cowardly crimes.
“The witnesses in this case behaved with great courage after
being traumatised by these crimes.
“They will take comfort from the fact that he will be deported
at the end of his sentence.”
this clown should have known that the victim also had human right.
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