Gang-Bang Rapists: Ten Years Apiece

Two pals have each been jailed for ten years for the “dreadful” gang-rape of a drunken Crawley office worker one of them picked-up in a nightclub.

The 25 year-old victim had drunk a cocktail of vodka and wine before going drinking at the town’s Bar Med, where she met and agreed to have sex with one of the defendant’s at a two-bedroom flat in nearby Fenchurch Street in the early hours of October 25, 2008.

Once there a third man – still wanted by police – joined the group and the trio attacked the girl after she started having sex in the bedroom with her date, Croydon Crown Court heard.

Heathrow Airport security officer Anouar Ben-Rejab, 36, of Tithe Barn Drive, Bray, Maidenhead, Berkshire was convicted on two counts of rape and taxi driver Nizar Baccar, 31, of Climping Road, Ifield, Crawley on one count.

Both were also convicted after the week-long trial of assaulting the woman by penetration and Ben-Rejab alone was found guilty of sexual assault.

“This dreadful incident has had a devastating impact on her life,” the Recorder of Croydon Warwick McKinnon told the Tunisian-born defendants, who appeared shocked at the verdicts.

“Three men were involved in the gang-rape of a woman who trusted you in going back to the flat,” added the Judge.

“She was prepared to engage in intimacy with one of you, but not all three at once and one of you took a photograph of what was going on.”

A third suspect, Ahmed Farjallah, jumped police bail before he could be charged and is still wanted.

“It’s a tragedy for you at your ages of good character to be where you are and a tragedy for your families and the victim,” added Recorder McKinnon. “This was a joint enterprise by all three.”

Married father-of-one Ben-Rejab (pic top) picked-up the complainant and married dad Baccar (pic. bottom) drove them to the flat, where the victim concedes she started having consensual sex.

Prosecutor Miss Alexandra Healy told the court: “Two other men came into the bedroom and began to join in. She protests and makes it clear she doesn’t want to be involved sexually with three men.

“Despite her protests the three men continue to sexually assault and rape her,” the prosecutor told the jury.

“She had made it quite clear in her actions that she no longer consented to sexual activity. She was crying and said ‘No’ over and over again.”

The rape included penetration of the victim’s vagina, mouth and anus and Ben-Rejab later grabbed her by the hair and tried to force her to her knees to perform oral sex on him.

After leaving by taxi the victim raised the alarm and police swooped on the flat the same morning arresting Ben-Rejab and later Baccar when he surrendered.