Man jailed after raping woman at student accommodation in Glasgow

Abdullah Aminpur, 25, exposed himself and carried out the sex attack on the teenage victim after he was invited to her student flat on December 5 in 2021.

A judge told him at the High Court in Edinburgh: "You were found guilty of a serious offence committed against a significantly younger girl. She was 18 and you were 23."

Judge Norman McFadyen said: "She invited you to come to her student flat but she made it clear to you when you got there that nothing was going to happen."

"You subjected her to an ordeal in which you repeatedly raped her vaginally and also raped her orally in her own bedroom."

The judge said: "She eventually got away from you and called for help from friends and she took refuge outside the flat while they came and at her request removed you."

He told first offender Aminpur: "Your attitude seems to be simply one of blaming the victim and you have shown no insight into the impact the crime will have had on her."

He added that it was "troubling" that Aminpur was considered to be a high risk of reconviction under one assessment tool.

The judge said that in sentencing him he took into account his clean record and added: "I also take account of your age and therefore possibility of some degree of lack of maturity at the time."

He added: "But given the serious and protracted nature of your behaviour towards your victim which has, not surprisingly, had a significant impact on her I am satisfied that only a custodial sentence is appropriate."

The court earlier heard that after Aminpur arrived in Britain he made a claim for asylum which was granted for a limited period of time.

Aminpur, of Green Street, Glasgow, had denied carrying out the rape of the teenager but was found guilty by a majority verdict of the jury at his trial.

Defence counsel Paul Nelson KC said Aminpur continued to maintain that he did not commit a rape.

Aminpur was placed on the sex offenders' register for an indefinite period.