Eritrean Man Found Guilty of Raping Elderly Man Outside Harrow Church
CCTV and a witness helped police arrest Bruke Desalagne within five minutes, and he was convicted after a 20-minute assault outside a church.
- A jury at Harrow Crown Court found Bruke Desalagne, 33, guilty of rape for an attack on a pensioner outside St John's Church on July 23, 2025, lasting approximately 20 minutes.
- Desalogne moved the heavily intoxicated victim behind a hoarding to commit the assault, pausing whenever members of the public or vehicles passed on the surrounding road.
- A witness spotted the assault from a nearby window and contacted police, who arrived within five minutes and arrested Desalogne at the scene with CCTV footage corroborating the incident.
- Following the conviction, Det Con Luke Revill of the Metropolitan Police described Desalogne as a "dangerous offender who targeted a defenceless, vulnerable, elderly man," with sentencing due in the autumn.
- Reports indicate Desalogne is from Eritrea and entered the UK as a clandestine entrant before being granted Indefinite Leave to Remain in 2022.
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Eritrean man found guilty of raping elderly man outside Harrow church
A man has been found guilty of raping an elderly man outside a church in Harrow following an attack that lasted around 20 minutes. Bruke Desalagne, 33, was convicted at Harrow Crown Court after jurors were shown CCTV footage of the attack, which happened outside St John’s Church in Harrow. Harrow Online initially broke the […] The post Eritrean man found guilty of raping elderly man outside Harrow church appeared first on Harrow Online.
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