Malik, who gave evidence in English during the trial, said he had been playing cricket with a group of other men and smoking cannabis in the park before the attack.<\/p>\n
He denied he had slapped her at any point and claimed the woman had told him “I really like you” and “I really enjoyed it”.<\/p>\n
Later in his evidence, Malik was asked why a different name had been used to book him a coach ticket to leave the Nottinghamshire area after the attack.<\/p>\n
He said a friend had booked the ticket for him, adding that the Home Office was “giving me \u00a350 for every week”.<\/p>\n
Addressing Malik in the dock, the judge said: “You have been convicted of very serious charges and I will need to sentence you in due course.<\/p>\n
“The case will next be listed on 6 February to fix a sentence date.<\/p>\n
“I have ordered a pre-sentence report to assess the level of dangerousness. You must engage with the probation service when they seek to engage with you.<\/p>\n
“You will be remanded into custody at this stage.”<\/p>\n
In a statement after the sentencing, Nottinghamshire Police confirmed Malik was a Pakistani national who followed proceedings through a Pashto interpreter.<\/p>\n
The force said the investigation remained a priority.<\/p>\n
Det Insp Nicole Milner said: “As is always the case for investigations of this nature, there are many people involved and they have all played a part to bring Malik to justice.<\/p>\n
“I particularly want to acknowledge the work of Det Con Malgorzata Kacprzycka and Det Sgt Barry Haines, who have been crucial in bringing Malik to justice.<\/p>\n
“Above all, I also want to acknowledge the bravery and resilience of the victim.<\/p>\n
“She has shown great courage throughout and helped us to build a very strong case against Malik, whose version of events lacked credibility from the start.<\/p>\n
“As a result of her evidence, the jury was able to see through his lies and to convict him on three counts of rape.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malik, who gave evidence in English during the trial, said he had been playing cricket with a group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-391692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}