“Despite her screams, he told her to take her clothes off, he struck her with the stick, and he put his hands around her neck to strangle her and demanded that she climb into the bathtub,” Bradley said.<\/p>\n
“He turned on the hot water tap and began pouring water over her, telling her to say ‘hallelujah’ as he did so.”<\/p>\n
The court heard that Ashby told the woman his name was John and demanded she repeat “his mantra that he was ‘the master’.”<\/p>\n
The Prosecution said that after raping the woman, Ashby instructed her to go into the bedroom and lie on the bed, saying again he was there “to have fun” while referring to his private parts as being white British.<\/p>\n
The court heard the attack only came to an end because Ashby was “evidently spooked by a noise outside” and ran away, taking the victim’s jewellery and a mobile phone.<\/p>\n
The jury was told that that the woman raised the alarm and police arrived within minutes.<\/p>\n
The woman picked Ashby out as her attacker at an identity parade days later, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Ashby admitted charges of rape, robbery, intentional strangulation and religiously aggravated assault.<\/p>\n
He is due to be sentenced on Friday, and the judge Justice Pepperall warned Ashby that he was considering the imposition of a life sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Despite her screams, he told her to take her clothes off, he struck her with the stick, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-543037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543037","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=543037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543037\/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=543037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}