Adnkronos (Adnkronos) – An illegal migrant raped a woman after being released from prison. He had been arrested for a previous sexual assault. The man, a 35-year-old former Eritrean soldier, according to the Daily Mail, should have been deported after his conviction for the sexual assault in 2019. However, he remained in Britain after serving a five-year sentence for the attempted rape of an unconscious woman in Newport, South Wales, in 2019.
The man arrived in the UK in 2015 by hiding in the trailer of a lorry that crossed the English Channel.
After two days in custody, he was transferred to Newport, where he worked at a car wash and an Amazon fulfillment center. In 2019, after the trial that led to his conviction for attempted rape, the judge addressed him with the words reprinted today by the newspaper: "Upon his release, he is likely to be taken to an immigration detention center.
The Ministry of the Interior will order his expulsion." The defendant, unable to express himself in English, used an interpreter in court at the time.
According to the Daily Mail, the 35-year-old returned to Newport without any sexual supervision. In March of this year, he was arrested again after a report of a sexual assault against another woman.
The defendant denied the charges but was found guilty again after a five-day trial. The sentence will be decided at a hearing scheduled for November.
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