A Nigerian student identified as Peter Odukoya, 27, has been jailed after a brave woman recorded her pleas for the sex attacker to stop on her phone. He had offered his victim a lift home with friends on a girls night out but when he dropped the others off, he took the drunk 20-year-old lady back to his flat. The victim’s ‘instincts kicked in’ in the car so she turned on her phone’s recording app. This paid off as her phone recorded her pleas for Odukoya to stop saying, ‘Please, I have a boyfriend’ and ‘I don’t want this. I’m very drunk’.
A Cardiff Crown Court heard how the victim pleaded with the Computer sciences student of Treforest, Pontypridd, said to be in the same school as his victim, sexually assaulted her after she slumped on his settee despite her pleas.
Eventually, the victim managed to push Odukoya off and locked herself in his bathroom, before ringing a friend to pick her up. It was later she gave the disturbing recording to the police. Odukoya has now been found guilty of sexual assault at Cardiff Crown Court. Harry Baker, prosecuting, told the court;
‘She was left humiliated. It affected her grades.
‘She says ‘it completely took my dignity away’.’
Andrew Davies, defending, disclosed that Odukoya had been suspended from his computer sciences course after his sexual attack on the lady. He had also brought ‘shame’ to his family in Nigeria who had to save up to send him to study in the UK. Mr Davies said:
‘His father has completely disowned him and cut him off from his family, which will affect him for the rest of his life.’
Odukoya was also told by the Recorder of Cardiff, Judge Eleri Rees:
‘This girl sat on your settee, and without warning you pulled down her trousers and her knickers.
‘She pleaded with you to stop. She was extremely distressed.
‘You have showed no remorse. You said nothing of a sexual nature occurred which was undermined by the recordings.
‘You took advantage of a young woman who was very vulnerable.’
Peter Odukoya is set to remain on the sex offenders register for 10 years, and given a restraining order against his victim for five years.
