Portsmouth rapist Muhib Uddin jailed for 6 years after infecting teenager with STI in Southsea alleyway attack

Kebab shop worker Muhib Uddin, 31, preyed on the defenceless 19-year-old as she was sitting on a pallet in an alleyway in Southsea where he was working last summer.

Portsmouth Crown Court heard he put his arm around her, helped her up and ushered her along the alleyway from Clarendon Road out of view of CCTV, all the while glancing over his shoulder just before 10pm last summer.

But then dad-of-one Uddin pinned her against a brick wall by grabbing her ‘by the neck and the face to stop her moving her head whilst he kissed her on the face,’ prosecution Rebecca Austin said.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons and who watched her attacker jailed in court today, said her next recollection was ‘being on the floor being raped,’ Ms Austin added.

‘What is truly shocking is how quickly it happened. It’s our case that the defendant’s actions were predatory and within seconds of realising her vulnerability, he decided to exploit this for his own sexual gratification.’

She screamed afterwards, drawing the attention of members of the public who came to her aid as Uddin, of Newcomen Road, Stamshaw, fled the alleyway off Clarendon Road, Southsea.

In a statement read out by Ms Austin before Uddin was jailed for six years, the victim said: ‘How could you do this? How could you have been wicked and cruel? You have contaminated me by raping me.’

She had to undergo antibiotics treatment as he infected her with chlamydia, the court heard.

She added: ‘Why did you think it was okay to rape me? Why did you cause so much trauma, terror and fear. You should never have done this to me. You violated and you raped me.’

Sentencing, judge William Ashworth said: ‘You saw a vulnerable female who was intoxicated and defenceless and instead of seeing her as a fellow human who was in need of protection, you saw her as an object whose vulnerability you could exploit for your own sexual gratification.

‘This was rape not just a physical assault on the victim, it was an invasion of her person and her soul which has changed her, it would appear, for some long time.’

The judge said she showed ‘courage’ by coming to court – sitting feet away from Uddin in an open dock – but that the rapist had ‘not shown any remorse or understanding’.

Uddin left her ‘screaming and helpless’ and must now accept what he did and the harm he caused,’ the judge said.

Addressing Uddin, judge Ashworth said he took into account ‘the humiliating and degrading nature of the rape, and the appalling situation that you left her in’.

He said the rape ‘whilst terrible was short lived’ but would have handed him eight years if he had not pleaded guilty.

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Police arrived and moved the victim into a car as she was partially undressed, covered in a blanket provided by someone who came to help, and her screams had attracted more people.

Uddin was later arrested after being identified on CCTV. He told police: ‘Any sexual acts that took place were consensual.’

But DNA taken from the victim in the investigation matched that of Uddin, and he pleaded guilty to rape at crown court.

In her statement, the victim, who wept in court, said: ‘I did not deserve anything being done to me.

‘I will never be able to come back from what you’ve done to me. There will be permanent scars that you have left with me.

‘They may not be on my face but will always be on my mind. You have taken so much from me.’

She added she suffers from anxiety and sees her family and friends’ lives being destroyed.

She said: ‘You have left me feeling emotionally drained and tired on a daily basis. I feel sad and hopeless. I feel numb and you have little motivation and I struggle to keep my focus.’

The woman added: ‘I will have to live with this forever. The trauma is always there every day and I feel so broken and damaged. You have taken so many of my happy memories away.’

Uddin, who has no previous convictions, has been described as having ‘limited intellectual ability,’ his barrister Jodie Mittel said.

He had no previous convictions in Britain, or in Bangladesh where he lived until 2016, until he admitted the August 29 rape.

Uddin removed his face mask and turned to the public gallery as he was ordered to the cells and said: ‘I’m really very, very sorry.’

Judge Ashworth ordered him to the cells again, and afterwards told the victim: ‘I mean what I say, you’re not to blame.’

Uddin must sign the sex offenders’ register for life.

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