Newly married Nigerian oil worker gets 7-year jail term for raping teen in Scotland
A High Court in Glasgow, Scotland, has sentenced a 34-year-old Nigerian man, Kufre Uwem to seven years and six months imprisonment for rape.
Uwem, an oil worker in the British country, had, in February 26, been remanded for raping and assaulting two women.
He had only just married his wife at a lavish wedding ceremony in Uyo last December.
Uwem, according to the judge, Lord Arthurson, lured his first victim – an 18-year-old first year university student whom he had met in Aberdeen city centre on the evening of 17 October 2012 – to his flat where he assaulted and raped her.
His victim had told the court the “monumental impact” the experience had on her for years.
He was also accused of subjecting his second victim to a degrading penetrative sexual assault to injury with intent to rape. The incident happened in her own flat in Aberdeen on 30 October 2016.
Uwem claimed he wasn’t guilty of the charges.
Lord Arthurson said he’d treat Uwem as a first time offender, as he had no previous records of such grave offences.
“In the whole circumstances before the court, I have concluded that your criminal conduct represents violent and predatory sexual offending which by its gravity merits the imposition of a very substantial period of imprisonment,” the judge said.
“In the event that I had elected to sentence on these charges separately, I would have imposed custodial terms of six years on charge one and four years on charge two respectively.”
Lord Arthurson, pronouncing his final judgment on Monday, said he would treat Uwem’s offences as one, notwithstanding the four year gap in time between the crimes.
