Moment vile sex predator lures woman into his car and tries to rape her – before she escapes & bangs on window for help
THIS is the chilling moment a sex predator lures a young woman into his car, before she manages to escape.
Ghulan Mohammed, 36, was prowling Leicester city centre when he found the woman, who had become separated from her friends late at night.
Having already passed her in his car once before, CCTV shows Mohammed circling back to find the woman in her 20s – who appears to be walking in an unstable manner.
He then pulls up and gets out to talk to the victim, before walking her around the back streets of Leicester for an hour.
The footage, released by Leicestershire Police, then captures the terrifying moment he persuades her to get into the back seat of his car, before pulling away.
In the horror attack, which took place in the early hours of December 18 last year, the predator then drove the victim to a remote area where he sexually assaulted her and tried to rape her, it was later proved.
CCTV from later in the night proceeds to show the terrified woman banging on the window of a petrol station and desperately pushing Mohammed away.
He is seen grabbing her wrists before forcing her back into the silver Volkswagen Golf.
The brave victim was finally saved when she sent a live location notification and voice notes to her friends begging for help.
As he pulled up in a hotel car park, her friends ran over to the car where they dragged her to safety.
When she was found she was covered in mud and bruises and Mohammed had no trousers on.
Mohammed fled and the victim called police who launched an urgent man hunt.
Police discovered the woman, who spoke little English, had tried to plead with him to stop abusing her by using a translation app on her phone.
The device revealed she had repeatedly begged him to: “Give me my clothes back,” and to “take me home.”
Detectives trawled hours of CCTV to identify Mohammed and he was arrested the next day at his home in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs.
Following a five-week trial he was found guilty of one count of attempted rape, four counts of sexual touching, one of theft and four of fraud.
Last Friday (1/11) he was jailed for seven years and three months Northampton Crown Court.
The court heard that Mohammed started following the woman shortly before 9.30pm on December 17 after spotting her walking on St Nicholas Circle.
CCTV shows him braking suddenly after driving past the woman, before turning left into Castle Street and parking.
As she walked along Southgates and then turned in to the opposite end of Castle Street, Mohammed caught up with her and they started talking.
After walking after the woman for nearly an hour he persuaded her to get into his car and he drove her out of the city.
For more than two hours the car was driven around and parked in numerous locations.
At 12.40am the following morning, the Golf was captured on CCTV pulling onto a petrol station forecourt in Groby Road.
Mohammed and the woman get out of the car and the victim can be seen in an angry and distressed state.
How to report a sexual assault
- Contact a doctor or practice nurse at your GP surgery.
- Contact a voluntary organisation, such as Rape Crisis, Women’s Aid, Victim Support, The Survivors Trust or Male Survivors Partnership.
- Call the 24-hour freephone National Domestic Abuse Helpline, run by Refuge, on 0808 2000 247.
- Speak to the rape and sexual abuse support line run by Rape Crisis England and Wales – you can call the helpline on 0808 500 2222 or use the online chat (both are free and are open 24 hours a day, every day of the year).
Around 10 minutes later they return to the car and Mohammed drives in the direction of Leicester Forest East.
At around 1am the victim sent a voice note to a friend asking for help along with live location information.
Shortly after 1.30am the car parked in a hotel car park in Hinckley Road where it stayed with the headlights off.
The victim’s friends arrived at the hotel at 1.50am to find her in the back of the car with Mohammed.
Mohammed fled in the car and within hours he used the victim’s bank card to make four transactions totalling £125.14.
Detective Constable Sarah Le Boutillier, of Leicestershire Police, said: “Mohammed is a sexual predator who intentionally sought out the victim that night after seeing her alone and in a vulnerable state.
“It is thanks to her friends that she was rescued from the defendant’s car after she was able to share her location data with them.
“I believe had this not happened further offences would have been committed.
“The swift reporting of the incident meant we were able to launcsth an investigation very quickly and within less than 28 hours the suspect had been identified and arrested.
“Despite the evidence against him being undeniable, the defendant chose not to admit what he did and instead caused the victim further trauma by making her relive the events of the night during the trial.”
Maimuna Bappa, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Mohammed “subjected his victim to a terrifying ordeal”.
She added: “The victim had very little recollection of what had happened, other than that she was being attacked and was determined not to give in to [his] sexual advances.
“The picture of these events was clear – that this is an extremely dangerous sexual predator and that the victim has shown extraordinary courage to resist him during the attack and to give what help she can to the investigation and prosecution.”