Three men guilty of raping woman in shack

Patryk Kubacz, Damian Sidor, and Jaroslaw Szklarski will be sentenced in December

Three men have been found guilty of raping a woman in an abandoned shack.

Their victim was attacked at the site, near Banbury railway station in Oxfordshire, over a prolonged period between 22:00 GMT on 12 April and 12:00 the following day.

Patryk Kubacz, 30, of Edinburgh Way, Banbury, Damian Sidor, 28, of no fixed abode, and Jaroslaw Szklarski, 57, also of no fixed abode, were found guilty of rape and further offences following a trial at Oxford Crown Court.

They were remanded in custody to be sentenced on 20 December.

According to Thames Valley Police, the woman was "subjected to sexual and physical assaults, and was raped on a number of occasions".

When she was threatened with a knife and told to get the men some drugs, she was able to escape from the shack and alert a member of the public.

Officers subsequently arrived and arrested the three men, police said.

They were charged on 16 April and remanded to prison.

'Evil offences'

Kubacz was found guilty of four counts of rape, three unanimously and one by a majority verdict, and guilty by unanimous verdict of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, threatening a person with a bladed article in a private place, and non-fatal strangulation.

He was acquitted of a further two counts of rape, one of assault, and one count of threatening a person with a bladed article in a private place.

Sidor was found guilty of one count of rape by a unanimous verdict, and acquitted of one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted rape.

Szklarski was found guilty by unanimous verdict of rape, and pleaded guilty to sexual assault.

Det Con Charis Fernley said: "This abhorrent and sustained attack on a young woman was absolutely horrendous.

"I would like to commend the victim’s bravery and strength to report this to the police and for supporting the investigation throughout, including during the court process.

"She has continually shown great courage, despite subjected to an horrific series of assaults, sexual assaults and rapes."

He said he was "pleased that the jury have convicted these three dangerous men for these evil offences".

"I hope that the victim in this case can move on with her life in the knowledge that those who attacked her in such a vicious way have been found guilty and will face long prison sentences as a result," he added.