A migrant has been convicted of carrying out a terrifying rape on a young woman walking home from a night out – as it emerged he tried to attack another female victim a few years earlier.
Gift Oladele, 24, was found guilty by a jury of rape and sexual assault on the teenager – who said she wouldn’t wish her ordeal ‘on her worst enemy’ and that it left her mentally ‘scarred for life’.
Oladele, who called himself “big Mike” because of his 6ft 4 height, put a hand over his victim’s mouth, pushing her down a path into woods before raping her.
In her evidence, the woman, 19, said Oladele told her she liked it ‘as if justifying it in his head’.
She had told police: ‘It felt as if he had done it before. The way he did things and the way he handled me made it feel like it wasn’t the first time.’
In a video recorded interview, the teen told police that Oladele had approached her and a friend at the end of a night out in Wrexham, North Wales.
Her friend then took a taxi but she walked with Oladele who said his cousin lived near the football ground.
The woman said they had ‘a laugh with each other’ but then she became uneasy.
Oladele faces a ‘long sentence’ after he forced a woman down a woodland path and raped her
Oladele suddenly covered her mouth with his hand and pushed her down a path where she was assaulted.
The jury heard she was struck six or seven times, her jeans ripped off and ordered to ‘moan like you love it’ as she was raped.
Oladele told her he liked to be ‘dominant’ and that she should ‘pretend this never happened’.
Prosecutor James Coutts said, when she got home, the youngster woke her parents and police were called. Officers were directed to the location of her ordeal and they found the woman’s phone, ripped belt and knickers.
She told police: ‘What I went through I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I was scared for my life.’
Oladele, who lived in Manchester but staying at his cousin’s home in Wrexham, said he was in a relationship, having moved to Britain with his mother and that he used the name Michael.
He claimed the teen herself led him down the footpath in Wrexham, North Wales, and was “cunning.”
But following last September’s attack, searches of his electronic devices showed the defendant had made a Google search for ‘Wrexham rape after club’.
Oladele was previously jailed for two years after being convicted of false imprisonment
Jurors at Mold Crown Court returned their guilty verdicts on Friday but cleared him of a second rape count against the same woman.
It emerged the Italian-born sex fiend, born to Nigerian parents, was previously convicted of false imprisonment and jailed for two years in 2022 after he grabbed a woman in Middleton, Manchester, but she fought him off.
She screamed and dropped her weight in order to break free of his grip. A struggle lasted for 30 seconds before she managed to break free and Oladele ran away. She then phoned 999.
Oladele, said to run a cleaning business, insisted in evidence there was nothing predatory about the previous attack and he had “changed” since then.
He said he was trying to be a ‘good role model and good partner’.
Following the guilty verdicts, Judge Simon Mills remanded Oladele in custody until he is sentenced next month, for an assessment about the danger he posed. His migration status and any possibility of deportation were not discussed.
He warned the rapist: ‘I will be passing a long prison sentence upon you. This is a very serious case.’
Oladele’s 2022 attack was described in court as a ‘a disturbing and terrifying attack upon a lone woman in broad daylight’. Prosecutors branded him a ‘danger’ to women, adding: ‘His actions were predatory, he preyed on her and pounced when she was on an isolated path’.
