An asylum seeker who raped a “particularly vulnerable” 18-year-old woman in a park in Nottinghamshire has been jailed for 10 years.
Sheraz Malik attacked his victim in Sutton Lawn park in Sutton-in-Ashfield on 29 June last year, shortly after she was raped by another man Malik was with, who has yet to be identified.
The 28-year-old, previously of Bath Street in Sutton-in-Ashfield, had claimed the sex was consensual, but was found guilty of two counts of rape by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court in January.
On Thursday Malik was given a sentence of 10 years in custody, plus four years on extended licence.
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Judge Simon Ash KC, sentencing, said Malik attacked the “particularly vulnerable” woman, despite knowing she was very drunk and had been left alone in a park at night with men she did not know, adding the defendant called her “a slut” repeatedly after the attack.
“When she tried to resist, you hit her hard to the face and head,” he said.
“Some of the things you said to her did… amount to additional degradation and humiliation of her.”
The trial had heard Malik is an asylum seeker, who was born in Pakistan and lived in France, Germany and Italy before coming to the UK.
A reporting restriction was put in place at Nottingham Crown Court in September last year, preventing any mention of the defendant’s immigration status until the trial had concluded.
The court heard Malik arrived in the UK less than 12 months before the attack, and the sentencing hearing was told his case has not yet been considered.