Rapist jailed for seven years for Aberdeen attack on teenager.
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Abdullah was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh
A rapist who was chased by his victim after he sexually assaulted her in Aberdeen has been jailed for seven years.
Mohammed Abdullah, 19, attacked the 18-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on 17 August 2021.
A jury last month heard how he seized her by her wrists and restrained her before raping her.
The judge told Abdullah he would remain on the sex offenders register for life.
Abdullah attacked the woman after she left the Prohibition bar in the city centre.
He had been waiting outside in the moments leading up to the attack and taking pictures of girls dancing in the street.
After the attack, the woman started running after him. Abdullah fled and walked along nearby streets in Aberdeen city centre.
Detectives uncovered CCTV footage from a location close to where the rape took place.
At the trial in September, jurors were played the footage and they could hear the sound of a woman screaming.
They were also shown video footage of the woman adjusting her clothing moments after the attack and then starting to chase him.
When police officers detained Abdullah they found he could not speak English and after seizing his mobile phone they found footage of young women dancing in the street outside a nightclub.
Jurors convicted Abdullah, who was described as being a prisoner of YOI Polmont in Stirling, on a single charge of rape.
Sentence was deferred for the court to obtain a report on the first offender's background and the risk he posed to the public.
On Tuesday, judge Lord Ericht told Abdullah that he took the sentencing guidelines on young people into consideration in deciding the term.
Lord Ericht said: "You have no previous convictions. The criminal justice social work report assesses you at being of a moderate risk of sexual re-offending on one assessment but a high risk of sexual reoffending on another risk assessment.
"Your victim was unknown to you. You were hanging about late at night outside a nightclub. After your victim left the nightclub you raped her in the street.
"Your sentence will be one of seven years' imprisonment."
- Published25 September 2023
