TRAGIC TALE OF IYOSEPH DERRY'S CRIME IN BIRMINGHAM
As the photograph of rapist Iyoseph Derry appeared in the newspaper, a deeply traumatized mother spiraled into a devastating mental breakdown.She reported that she could suddenly smell him again, recalling the sinister look in his eyes and feeling his breath on her neck.
At just 19 years old, she was his first victim; unfortunately, she later discovered he was not her only one.
She described how Derry, the man who once shattered her eye socket, dented her skull, and cut her throat with a knife, had gone on to rape a vulnerable clubber.
The brave woman, now a mother of one, has broken her silence following Derry’s 2018 conviction and imprisonment for rape and aiding rape, which resulted in a ten-year sentence.
She told BirminghamLive, “When I saw him in the paper, that was the final straw.
I went into hibernation.
I quit my job and everything.
I wouldn’t go to work.
I felt like I could smell him.
I felt I could still feel him breathing down my neck.” She vividly recalled the anger and violence in his eyes during her initial attack, saying, “I could see that look, that anger that he had in his eyes when he was punching me and I was screaming.” Her assault began only a week into dating Derry.
On November 13, 2006, she was punched so hard he broke her eye socket.
Derry was convicted of wounding with intent and threats to kill, leading to a nine-year extended prison sentence in 2010.
The mother said, “People like him will never stop.
That’s the one thing I know about him.
He doesn’t learn, he doesn’t care.
He’s got no feeling, he is horrible.” Before discovering news of his criminal activities, she was trying to carry on with her life, but the moment she saw his mugshot, she suffered a severe breakdown as memories flooded back.
She recounted, “He broke my eye socket and dented my skull, sliced my throat with a knife.
I should have had a metal plate in my face.” Describing her injuries, she added, “When the jury saw the pictures, I was unrecognizable.
In the original Candyman, he hits her in the eye with his hook—my face was all swollen like that.
One side of my face looked like a model, but the other side was completely destroyed.” After her attack, she managed to persuade Derry to take her to the hospital.
“People said it was only a black eye.
But I could feel it in my head—it was radiating through my face like a shockwave,” she said.
Despite her injuries, she tried to hide her pain from her son, blowing her nose as her eye swelled and eventually popped out, prompting her to realize she needed to seek medical help.
“He put a knife to my throat and said, ‘When you go hospital what you going to say?’ I said: ‘That you did it’.
He just dug the knife further in, and I knew I wouldn’t get away with telling them,” she remembered.
At the hospital, Derry continued to threaten her.
She told a nurse she had been mugged, but the nurse pressed further.
“He was threatening to batter me when we got back,” she said.
Derry’s watchful gaze didn’t stop her from prompting her son to reveal the truth.
“He was watching me like a hawk.
When I asked who did it, my son said, ‘he did it,’ and he kicked off as the nurse walked away,” she explained.
Once outside the hospital, Derry dragged her out, threatening her further.
She recounts that on a bus journey, Derry threatened her and her son to go upstairs, and when she refused, he laughed and told her to watch what would happen.
“I sat on the bus and the adrenaline just kicked in.
I told the driver, ‘let me off,’ but he wouldn’t.
I moved my hair and showed him, ‘he’s done this to me, and if you don’t let me off, my life will be in your hands,’” she said.
In a desperate attempt to escape, she crossed the road to Edgbaston police station, which was under renovation at the time.
She explained, “They had a little container outside.
I just asked them to call me a taxi, but it said no caps, no hoods, no hats.
I took off my cap, and some drunken man saw me and said, ‘look at the state of her.’ It was absolutely disgusting.
I then walked outside and collapsed on the ground, completely exhausted.” Her young son comforted her, rubbing her back in a touching moment of support.
A kind taxi driver later took her and her son to a petrol station, bought sweets to calm her son down, and refused to charge her.
The following day, once her child was safe, she contacted West Midlands Police.
Derry was arrested months later, as he had been using a fake name, ‘Reheem,’ at the time.
He was eventually sentenced to five years in prison, with a four-year extension in 2010.
Despite justice served, she still experiences headaches from her injuries, and even simple things like blowing her nose cause issues because trapped air behind her eye affects her vision.
“The doctors gave me two options,” she explained.
“I either suffer with the headaches and my vision or risk losing my vision and have a metal plate inserted.
I didn’t want to be partially blind.
The operation was risky because of where he broke my eye socket—it’s right near the sinus, which doesn’t heal properly.
To this day, I can’t blow my nose.” In 2018, Derry, then working as a bouncer, targeted another vulnerable woman at Banjul Nightclub in Wolverhampton.
He raped her inside a car before assaulting her further at a flat.
Derry, of no fixed address, was convicted of rape and aiding and abetting rape in Birmingham Crown Court, receiving a ten-year sentence.
His accomplice, Hassan Bockarie, 34, of High Street, Erdington, was found guilty of one rape charge and sentenced to eight and a half years.
_______________________________________________ Previously....
A convicted rapist and bouncer, Iyoseph Derry, allegedly inflicted a serious facial injury on his ex-partner just one week after they had their first date, according to her account.
Her testimony reveals she was the first to suffer his assault at age 19, when she was left with a fractured eye socket, and that she later discovered he had committed further heinous crimes.
Derry, now 33, is currently serving a decade for crimes including rape and assisting others in committing rape, with the incidents taking place in 2018.
Her story became more traumatic when she saw Derry’s image in the press, triggering a breakdown and an influx of painful memories.
She recounted that Derry attacked her violently shortly after they began dating in November 2006, resulting in a broken eye socket.
He was subsequently convicted of assault with intent to harm and threats to kill, and received a lengthy prison sentence in 2010.
She expressed her belief that such violent individuals are unlikely to change, citing his lack of remorse and empathy.
Despite her efforts to move forward, the recent news of Derry's crimes reignited her trauma, and she described her injuries in detail, including the damage to her face and ongoing health issues.
She explained that her injuries were so severe she might have needed a metal plate, but medical concerns about the injury’s location made surgery risky; she now cannot blow her nose due to the trapped air behind her eye.
In 2018, Derry continued his violent ways at the Banjul Nightclub in Wolverhampton, raping a vulnerable woman in a car and assaulting her at a flat premises.
He was sentenced to ten years following a conviction at Birmingham Crown Court, with his accomplice Hassan Bockarie receiving eight and a half years for his role in the abuse.
Both are now serving their sentences.
