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| Man About Town: Gabbai |
A self-styled ‘Christian Grey poseur’ who raped two young women to satisfy his desire for rough, submissive sex, has been jailed for twenty years today.
Cambridge graduate Edward Gabbai, 30, who enjoyed dominant role-playing sex like the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ title character was described as a “sexual adventurer” who averaged three new women a week.
The entrepreneurial founder of The World Boutique Hotel Awards was convicted of raping a Swedish Tinder date, 20, and a drunken woman, 23, he picked-up late one night.
The Swedish woman had consented to adopting the submissive role in their relationship and admits she also enjoyed rough sex until Gabbai took things too far one night and had unprotected intercourse.
The drunken stranger was taken back to an address he was house-sitting and also subjected to rough non-consensual sex, the lengthy Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court trial heard.
Gabbai, of Thornbury Gardens, Borehamwood, who has a PhD in microbiology and nanoscience, was cleared of raping a 17 year-old escort, plus two further rapes of the drunken young woman.
He received seven years for raping the Tinder date, plus thirteen years for raping the drunken woman to run consecutively and must sign the sex offenders register.
His lawyer Sarah Forshaw QC told the court: “If he saw himself as a young sexual adventurer with several sexual partners, a poseur of the Christian Grey variety, his downfall couldn’t have been starker.
“His thirst for sexual adventure with multiple women, thrill-seeking, is more in common with someone in their late-teens or early twenties.
“The convictions mean the loss of a once promising career, and a relationship. He faces financial and reputational ruin and he faces disgrace.”
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Gabbai is on suicide watch at HMP Wandsworth, where he was seen by a psycho-sexual psychiatrist for four hours, who concluded: “He was very motivated to have casual sexual relationships.”
Judge Timothy Lamb QC told Gabbai: “The psychological effect on each complainant is, in my view, ‘severe’”
Prosecutor Mr. Simon Russell Flint QC told the jury the drunken woman had never met Gabbai before and ended up in his cab during a drunken night out in Angel, Islington.
The jury were played mobile phone footage police seized from the defendant of her on her on her knees in the bathroom of Gabbai’s Battersea house sit in the midst of the rape.
“It shows a naked girl on her knees, she appears to be distressed and has been assaulted. You can hear the defendant say: ‘Tell me you will do anything I want,’ and see him slap her violently.
“The footage shows him telling her to put her arms behind her back and bottom in the air.
“She can be heard saying: ‘Please don’t, ouch, please don’t, ouch.’”
“This being rough and violent in the course of sexual activity, we say, is a common and repeating theme,” said Mr. Russell Flint.
“Edward Gabbai likes to dominate sexually and inflict hurt and violence on those who he engages in sexual activity.”
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The Swedish woman did initially consent to sex with Gabbai until she was raped in the bedroom of a Stoke Newington address, the jury were told.
“He picked her up and put her on all fours and started giving her orders as what to do. He pinned down her legs, pushed her down and started to become very aggressive.
“He started strangling so hard she could not breathe, bit her neck and ear so it left a visible mark, turned her head so he could slap her face and pulled her hair.
“He said: ‘That’s my favourite bit.’ She was screaming out and he continued to have sex with her.
“Facial injuries were caused by the defendant beating her up, quite frankly.”
She reported Gabbai to the police after becoming embarrassed about her parents seeing her in such a state and having to cancel her passport picture appointment at the Swedish Embassy.
“He said she liked rough sex. He said he hit her about twelve times, but at no time did she tell him to stop.”
The second complainant had been drinking in Angel and agreed to get in Gabbai’s shared Uber cab at 3.30am because she had no phone power to call her own.
However, once in the address she court heard Gabbai told her in the hallway: “You have got to let me do whatever I want to you.”
She felt vulnerable and intimidated by the “very angry” Gabbai, the court heard. “He pushed her onto the bed and slapped her on both cheeks very hard.
“She started crying immediately and he called her lots of names, like slut,” explained Mr. Russell Flint.
“He pushed down on her neck, she couldn’t breathe, was gasping for breath and she really thought he was going to suffocate her.
“She says she was hysterical, crying and unable to speak and was told: ‘If you cry out or try to go away I’ll make it worse for you.’
“She slapped her face, her bottom, her legs.”
Gabbai raped her, said the prosecutor, while instructing her to say she was only twelve years-old and announcing: ‘You’re a little twelve year-old girl.’
Later Gabbai unlocked the front door and took her phone number before she left and the young woman reported him to the police.
When examined she had thirty separate areas of injury.
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