It's a Story That Beggars Belief -- A Romanian Crook Cynically Setting Out to Rape a Woman so He'd Be Sent to a Cushy British Prison. Here, with Unsparing Honesty, His Brave Victim Relives Her Ordeal [Edition 2]

Summary

---

LOUISE took three days to tell her boyfriend what had happened. She desperately wanted his support, but thought he'd be disgusted by her. 'I worried he'd never be able to look at me the same way again,' she says quietly. 'I thought he'd think it was my fault.'

Shame stopped Louise telling her parents, too. So on the evening she was violently raped, robbed and half-strangled, this 21-year- old went home alone, cried, bathed and tried to shake off the lingering horror of the brutal attack.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

It's a Story That Beggars Belief -- A Romanian Crook Cynically Setting Out to Rape a Woman so He'd Be Sent to a Cushy British Prison. Here, with Unsparing Honesty, His Brave Victim Relives Her Ordeal [Edition 2]

It was the disgust she felt towards herself that convinced her how other people would react.

Thankfully, she couldn't have been more wrong.

When they found out, her family and friends reacted with sympathy and support. Everyone was appalled by the hideous assault.

Everyone, that is, except for the perpetrator, Ali

Majlat. He was absolutely delighted. Now he would get exactly what he wanted: a lengthy custodial sentence in a British prison.

For, in a twist that cannot fail to spark shock and outrage, Majlat, 35, had travelled all the way from his native Romania with that one goal in mind. The inspiration for this staggering act of calculated brutality? H...

See the full content of this document

---