Woman Abused Twice In One Night By Two Different Men

Detectives are hunting for a sex predator after a woman was rap*d by two strangers in one night.

The woman was first attacked by Mustafa Yussuf after night out in the city centre. But the victim was then subjected to a second humiliating s*x assault by an unidentified man as she lay helpless in an alley.

Disturbing details of the woman’s ordeal emerged as Yussuf was jailed for seven years.

Manchester Crown Court heard that after coming across the woman in the city centre, Yussuf marched her into Church Street car park before having se* with her in a nearby alley.

Instead of helping her, another man, who has never been traced, pounced on the woman after Yussuf had fled the scene.

Yussuf, 21, of Princess Road, Moss Side, admitted having an encounter with the woman but denied rap* in a Manchester Crown Court trial. The jury rejected his account and found him guilty.

Judge Martin Steiger QC, sentencing, said he ‘hadn’t the slightest doubt’ that Yussuf was ‘perfectly aware’ the woman was too drunk to consent to any activity.

The court heard that the ‘mature’ woman had drunk to excess that night because of relationship problems.

CCTV showed that she was so drunk she could not stand. She had lost her handbag and when she went back to nightclub to look for it she was refused entry because of the state she was in.

It meant that in the aftermath of the double-rap* attack she needed strangers’ help to get home, and she was unable to remember what had happened to her for two hours.

The court heard that Yussuf was 20 years old and drunk at the time of the attack.

Zoe Nield, defending, said: "This offence does appear to be an isolated incident – it was out of character for this defendant."

The victim told court that her life had been shattered by the attack and had been isolated by a fear of going out.

Judge Steiger said: "At some point in the course of her ordeal she was rap*d by another individual.

There was never any charge laid against this defendant [Yussuf] for being party to that incident, which the complainant found in many ways the most traumatic feature of her ordeal."