A migrant who r@ped a 15-year-old girl in a drunken attack and was impregnated has been jailed for ten years and ten months.
Anicet Mayela, 41, was granted asylum in the UK after multiple attempts to repatriate him reportedly failed.
A court today heard that he pushed the victim to take off her clothes before launching the ass@ult.
Judge Maria Lamb was informed that an investigation began when a ‘pregnancy termination note’ was uncovered, and the victim eventually confessed what had happened to her.
According to prosecutor Edward Lucas, Mayela initially ” made confessions’ about what he had done before pleading guilty to the offense. However, the barrister stated that things changed when the defendant began to deny his culpability.
In September, a judge denied Mayela’s motion to vacate his guilty plea, and he ‘continues to deny his guilt’.
Mr Lucas stated that aggravating features of the case included the victim’s age and the fact that she became pregnant as a result of the incident.
In a victim impact statement read by the prosecutor, the girl stated, ‘I know you’re getting sentenced today…I’m so prepared for it.
Oxford Crown Court heard a study into the Congolese national, who had no prior convictions, and determined that he posed a substantial risk to pubescent females. Mr Lucas told Judge Lamb, “I submit the defendant is dangerous, for sentencing purposes.”
Peter Du Feu, defending, stated that Mayela had’spiralled into alcohol addiction and depression’ following the death of his wife from cancer. He referred to the December 2023 rape as a ‘one-off’.
Judge Lamb sentenced Mayela for what she described as a ‘terrible offense committed in guilt’, telling him: ‘It was her (the victim’s) first sexual encounter, and the agony you caused that kid, who became pregnant as a result, must have been enormous.
‘You continued to deny your crime. Your punishment will be reduced for that, but you will not benefit from remorse, and she will not benefit from knowing that you admit your culpability.
Judge Lamb added to the victim impact statement, ‘She is a magnificent young woman who, despite everything that has occurred to her and everything that you did to her, has found it possible to forgive you.’
She stated that the mitigation in the case was ‘minimal’, adding, ‘You continue to deny your offense. Your punishment will be reduced for that, but you will not gain from remorse.’
The judge reminded him that the victim “does not have the comfort of knowing that you admit your guilt.”
Mayela sobbed in the dock as the sentence was delivered.
In April, he guilty to a single count of r@pe and will spend two-thirds of his sentence before being freed on licence.
He will be placed on the sex offenders’ register for the rest of his life and must follow the Sexual Offences Act’s requirements. Mayela of Oxford was joined in the dock today by a French interpreter. He will also be prevented from working with minors.
At the September hearing, Judge Nigel Daly stated that Mayela had entered an ‘unequivocal plea of guilty’ at the previous hearing, and he saw no cause to vacate.
Following his initial court appearance earlier this year, The Sun claimed that multiple fruitless attempts had been made to remove him from the UK before he was granted permission to remain in the country.
It is understood that the Home Office first denied Mayela’s asylum plea in 2004, but he successfully contested the decision in court and was granted leave to remain on appeal in 2010.
According to an article published by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), a ‘anti-racist think tank’, he received three removal warnings and was left with a fractured hand during one deportation attempt.
According to the IRR report from 2005, Mayela paid an agent to assist him depart his home country in 2004 because his life was in danger. He settled in Plymouth, South Devon, where his initial asylum claim was reviewed and denied. The courts dismissed an appeal later that year.
Mayela was then incarcerated at the Campsfield House Detention Centre in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. However, a planned deportation flight back to the Congolese capital of Brazzaville in May 2005 was canceled after Air France cabin personnel refused to transport him.
A month later, he was granted leave to remain after lawyers argued that deportation would violate his human rights, while police investigated an alleged assault on him by immigration officials.
