A migrant hotel resident who sexually assaulted two women in Falkirk in the space of little over an hour has been jailed for four years.<\/p>\n
Muhammad Sheikhi, 23, targeted his victims after they left different nightclubs in the early hours of a Sunday morning last November.<\/p>\n
He was later arrested in his room in the Cladhan Hotel, which has been the scene of repeated rival protests involving pro and anti-immigration demonstrators.<\/p>\n
Sheriff Keith O’Mahony called the assaults “deliberate and predatory”.<\/p>\n
The sheriff said that he was imposing a sentence at the upper end of his sentencing powers.<\/p>\n
He added that he did not believe the offences were “spontaneous or accidental acts”.<\/p>\n
The sheriff said: “They were deliberate, predatory sexual assaults committed against strangers who had every right to walk home in safety.<\/p>\n
“You treated these women as though their autonomy, dignity, and bodily integrity counted for nothing.”<\/p>\n
Sheikhi was also placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely and ordered not to contact or approach the victims for a period of 10 years.<\/p>\n
Paul Keenan, defending Sheikhi, said his client is a Syrian refugee who had fled the “terror of Isis” and that he maintains his innocence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A migrant hotel resident who sexually assaulted two women in Falkirk in the space of little over an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733398","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\/733398","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=733398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}