Overview
- Stafford Crown Court sentenced the 27-year-old on January 12 after a jury last summer convicted him of rape and attempted rape.
- Prosecutors said the 18-year-old was attacked on January 18 last year in a Tamworth park after meeting Ogur days earlier via Snapchat.
- Judge John Edwards said the assault caused “immense harm” to the victim and noted that decisions about Ogur’s immigration status fall to other authorities.
- The CPS recorded a total prison term of seven years; Ogur was living at the Holiday Inn Express in Tamworth as an asylum seeker and was reported to have arrived by small boat weeks before the attack.
- Ogur denied the offences and claimed his post-assault messages were mistranslated by Google Translate, but jurors rejected his account as police and CPS praised the victim’s courage.