Towpath rapist jailed

THE illegal immigrant Bangladesh man who raped a woman by the towpath of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley, and attempted a rape of another was given an indeterminate sentence at Preston Crown Court.

Nizam Ahmed was told he would spend a minimum of six years in jail, and then would be deported, after being found guilty of two sex attacks by the towpath of the canal, Alan Tilbury reveals.

Two offences

He was found guilty of one offence of rape and a further offence of attempted rape at the end of his trial, that was the outcome of the police launching an investigation after a 23 years old woman reported being attacked and raped as she walked home along the canal towpath last September.

This was connected with a similar offence from six weeks earlier, of the attempted rape of an 18 years old girl by the same towpath.

Brutal

The judge told the man he will be automatically deported, telling him that what he did was brutal, determined and premeditated.

He claimed both women consented to 'business' with him and no force had been involved, but the women told the court they had both been grabbed before being subjected to the sex attacks.

He had come to this country in 2002 on a six months permit, but stayed on illegally undertaking restaurant work.