A convicted paedophile asylum seeker has admitted to raping a 19-year-old woman on a train because ‘he felt like it’, a court heard.
Sefatullah S., 30, approached a woman who had fallen asleep on an ICE train going from German city Stuttgart to Ulm. The shocked victim woke up to find him orally raping her, the court in Stuttgart heard.
Prosecutors told how the 19-year-old woman was sleeping with her head resting on a table when her attacker struck at 3.45am on August 7 last year.
The defendant, reportedly an Afghan refugee, admitted the rape, telling the court: ‘I felt like it, so I did it’.
Sefatullah S., who has 11 siblings, has previous convictions for ‘sexual crimes to the detriment of children’, according to German tabloid Bild.
Sefatullah S., 30, approached a woman who had fallen asleep on an ICE 619 train from German cities Stuttgart to Ulm (file image of ICE trains in Frankfurt)
The refugee, who can neither read nor write, arrived in Germany in 2015, blew his state handouts on booze and drugs while he lived rent-free in a refugee flat, the court heard.
He said during the trial: ‘I use my welfare money to buy whisky and cannabis.’
The 30-year-old accused also dismissed the process at Stuttgart District Court as ‘blah blah’, local media reported.
Sefatullah S. was in custody for three months before he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Ravensburg claiming he hears ‘voices’.
Police told the court that he had refused to take up a place in a programme to control sexual re-offenders.
Presiding Judge Jasmin Neher-Klein, 63, and her colleagues are due to deliver a verdict on February 7.
There has been no information available on the status of his asylum application.
This comes after a Sudanese refugee was given final leave to remain in UK while he was facing rape charge after attacking a drunk university student as she slept in her bed.
Adam Mohammed, aged 24 from Exeter, Devon, was found guilty of one count of rape following a trial at Exeter Crown Court in June 2023.
He was sentenced on January 12 to eight years in prison, of which he will serve two-thirds before being up for release on licence.
Restaurant worker Mohammed, originally from Sudan, says he came to the UK in 2016 because of ongoing conflict in his country.
Last year, he was granted final leave to remain in the UK by the Home Office, despite the charge against him.
But he may now face deportation after serving his sentence and will remain on the Sex Offenders Register for life.
During the trial, Exeter Crown Court heard how in March 2021 the victim, who was a student at the time, had been socialising with friends at her accommodation block on Exeter University campus.
Several people had joined the party, including three men who were unknown to the victim and to the rest of her friends.
At around midnight, the victim was put to bed by friends and her door was left unlocked so that friends could check in on her throughout the night.
At around 2am, the victim woke up in bed to find Mohammed raping her. She initially froze before pushing him away and fleeing to a friend’s room for help.
Police were alerted and officers were immediately on the scene and searches were carried out. Mohammed was arrested. He denied the offence, but was later charged with rape.
From forensic examination of the victim’s clothes, DNA was linked to Mohammed. He had stated that his DNA, which was found on the victim’s underwear, had got there due to the group playing drinking games that evening, something the victim and the witnesses all refute.
The jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict, and Mohammed was convicted of one count of rape following a trial on June 8 last year.