Girl places serial rapist in jail after Met dropped the case

A gusty lady who battled for 5 years to carry a serial rapist to justice tells her story in a TV documentary.

Illegal immigrant Nurazzaman Shahin, 40, launched into a “campaign of rape” after luring victims with bogus £500-a-day vacancies for a sham Soul Mate Escorts company.

Allegations of 11 offences, together with rape, have been reported to police and immigration authorities in 2015.

But Bangladeshi Shahin, who arrived right here on a pupil visa in 2005, was not prosecuted or deported, leaving him free to proceed.

In 2018 two victims went to the Metropolitan Police.

A yr later officers inexplicably dropped the case.

One of these ladies – referred to as Sam – tells viewers how she fought on to win justice for herself and a minimum of seven different victims.

The ITV present relates how they went to a house in Camden, North London, for a “job interview” with Shahin. There, he seized their passports, locked the door and raped them. The ladies have been then compelled into prostitution.

Sam picks up her story after her rape. She says: “I was anxious. I was depressed. I felt dirty. I felt used, I felt like damaged goods. I want to go to the police, but I’m scared to. What are these people gonna think of me that I’ve made a decision to be an escort?

“And then what? You’ve been raped?”

She established contact with one other sufferer – referred to as Gabrielle – and so they reported Shahin however “the police did nothing”.

Having been instructed in 2019 her case was being dropped, Sam went to the Centre for Women’s Justice. Her strain resulted within the Met’s trendy slavery and exploitation group launching a recent probe in January 2020.

It took till 2021 for Shahin to lastly be charged after the evaluate discovered extra victims. The eight recognized about have been 17 to 26 however police consider many extra are but to return ahead.

Last October Shahin was convicted of twenty-two offences, together with eight rapes and 7 of controlling prostitution. He was jailed for 31 years at Snaresbrook Crown Court, with Judge Alison Levitt branding him a parasite. The 11 alleged offences reported to police in 2015 couldn’t be prosecuted on a technicality.

• Catching My Rapist is on ITV1 and ITVX at 10.45pm on Monday