Illegal migrant we DID let stay went on to carry out violent rape
A MIGRANT who illegally entered Britain raped a young woman on her way to work months after being granted the right to stay here.
Elias Hussain Mahmud, 22, knocked his victim to the ground from behind, threatened to kill her before raping her twice.
The Ethiopian-born refugee – who has been jailed for 12 years for the horrifying attack – entered Britain illegally last year but was later granted leave to remain in the UK until 2020.
Yet less than nine months after he was granted political asylum, he attacked the lone woman at 5.40am as she made her morning walk to her office in Swansea, South Wales.
The victim, who cannot be named, is said to be too scared to leave her own home since the attack in April, Swansea Crown Court heard.
The refugee knocked her over from behind before the pair struggled on the ground.
But Mahmud overpowered her and raped her twice as lay pinned down to the pavement in the city centre.
He then ran off, but was arrested just 45 minutes later after police received calls about a man acting suspiciously in a nearby residential area.
At an earlier hearing at Swansea Magistrates’ Court, Mahmud’s solicitor Paul Jackson said his client had been granted political asylum.
Mr Jackson said: ‘ He has come to this country from a war-torn area of Ethiopia. He has been granted political asylum and works full time.’
Mahmud, of Mount Pleasant, Swansea, last week pleaded guilty to two counts of assault by penetration, two counts of rape, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and making a threat to kill when he appeared in court.
After the sentencing, Detective Chief Inspector Esyr Jones said: ‘This was a very serious incident which understandably caused a lot of public concern.
‘A lone female was walking to work when she was assaulted and raped in terrifying circumstances.
‘This incident has had a life- changing impact on the victim and our thoughts first and foremost are with her.’
Responding to the Mahmud case, a Home Office spokesman said: ‘This Government puts the rights of the British public before those of criminals. Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality and the refuge we provide by committing crimes in the UK should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.’
The shocking case comes after it was revealed last month that an illegal immigrant from Somalia should have been deported before he tried to kidnap and molest four schoolchildren.
Adbi Waise, 28, was served a deportation order in 2013 after being sentenced to eight years for the violent rape of a 21-year-old woman he dragged off the street in 2008.
He was released from his sentence early in 2014 and taken to an immigration removal centre. But he was freed following a Government moratorium on deportations to Somalia. Officials ruled that the war-torn country was too dangerous to send foreign criminals back to.
And three weeks later, the drug dealer pretended to be a policeman to kidnap the school girl and attempt to snatch four more in a space of around two and a half hours.
A court heard how he stalked his victim as they walked to school and offered drugs to children as young as ten.
When he was finally jailed for 12 years last month, the judge described him as ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’ and recommended he be deported.
Somalia is ranked the world’s most corrupt country by Transparency International, yet it has received £583million in aid from Britain.
A moratorium on deportations to Somalia has now been lifted and removals to the war-torn country are being considered case by case. Officials have also said they will continue to pursue the removal of Waise from the UK.
‘Life-changing impact on the victim’