A rocket science student was yesterday jailed for four years for repeatedly raping a woman who texted her friend for help during the ordeal.
Sex beast Abdul Lawal, a former officer in the Nigerian Navy, met his 26-year-old victim on a night out and took her back to his flat in Kennishead Avenue, Glasgow, on March 11, last year.
He carried out the horrific sex attack which the woman said she felt lasted “forever”. During her ordeal she managed to text a friend saying: “I got raped”.
Lawal denied raping the woman – forcing her to go through a trial which ended yesterday at the High Court in Glasgow.
Judge Lady Stacey told Lawal, who was studying for a PhD at Glasgow University: “The jury convicted you of a very serious crime.
“What you did had an effect on the woman involved.
“Once the pair of you were alone in the living room, you subjected that woman to a sustained and serious attack.
“You are an educated man and a former officer in the Nigerian Navy. This situation has been brought about by your own actions.”
The court heard that the victim fled from the house and was later picked up by her ex-partner, who told the court: “I’ve never seen her so distressed.”
Lawal denied raping the woman and claimed he acted like “a gentleman”
He claimed that she consented to have sex with him three times. Solicitor advocate Jim Wallace, defending, said: “Mr Lawal continues to protest his innocence. He claims this woman left her date to walk with him.”
First offender Lawal claimed the woman was lying and was possibly “regretting” having consensual sex with him, but the jury did not believe him.
He was placed on the sex offenders’ register.
