2013: WOLLESCOTE MAN JAILED AFTER 'OBSCENE' SEX ATTACK ON VULNERABLE WOMAN
A Wollescote man who carried out a frightening sex attack on a vulnerable 42-year-old woman making her way home after a night out with friends has been jailed for 16 months.The offence in Lye was a “particularly obscene and unpleasant sexual assault” Judge Mark Eades at Wolverhampton Crown Court said because at the time 23-year-old Mohammed Aqeel had been a registered sex offender.
The court was told Aqeel, who had been cautioned by police for an earlier sexual offence, approached his victim in Providence Street in the early hours as she was walking home.
He carried out the sex attack before driving away from the scene but was traced by police through DNA testing and arrested.
Gurdeep Garcha, defending, said Aqeel had been smoking cannabis before the incident and that had impaired his memory of the events.
He added: “By pleading guilty he has spared the victim the trauma of having to give evidence.
He is deeply sorry for his actions.
“He knows what he did was utterly wrong and totally unnacceptable and he accepts it must have been very frightening for this woman." The judge said a probation report described Aqeel as being a sexual predator who posed a risk to vulnerable women and it was a "troubling case." Aqeel, of Wassell Road, admitted sexual assault and was further told by the Judge he must now register as a Sex Offender for five years.
