Rapist who sexually assaulted woman he met outside Basildon nightclub is jailed

A RAPIST who met his victim outside a Basildon nightclub before sexually assaulting her in an alleyway has been jailed for 14 years.

Hamza Nasir was jailed at Snaresbrook Crown Court after Met Police officers used an image on his social media to identify the hotel where he had stayed following a second sex attack.

The 22-year-old admitted raping a woman when he appeared in the same court in October, as well as raping a girl under the age of 16 in a separate incident.

During the first incident, Nasir met his adult victim in a car park outside a nightclub in Basildon before he and a group of friends offered to drive her to a party.

They drove to an alleyway near to Newbury Park underground station before he attacked her and left on foot.

In a separate incident, Nasir arranged to meet a teenage girl having befriended her on Snapchat before he raped her.

Although Nasir had not used his real name on his Snapchat profile, he had published an image of himself at a hotel in Ilford, a location which officers recognised.

Detectives were able to establish when he had stayed at the hotel, and cross-referencing his Snapchat image with the hotel’s records led to Nasir’s identification.

DC Chloe James said: “Dedicated officers are working around the clock to help victims of sexual offences and to arrest the predatory men who commit these terrible crimes.

“I must thank both victims for supporting the police investigation and applaud their bravery. I am pleased that the strength of evidence that officers had assembled against Nasir meant that he entered guilty pleas, meaning the victims did not have to relive their ordeals in court.

“Women are safer with Nasir in prison. Once he has served his lengthy sentence, he will be on the sex offenders register for life.”

Nasir, of Pembroke Road, Ilford, was jailed for 14 years and ordered to sign the sex offenders register.