US EditionMan who followed Sikh woman home and raped her in religiously aggravated attack given life sentence
He admitted the assault after DNA, CCTV and witness evidence linked him to a targeted attack driven by religious hatred, prosecutors said.
- John Ashby was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of nearly 14 years for the rape of a Sikh woman.
- He pleaded guilty to rape, robbery, strangulation, and religiously aggravated assault related to the attack in Walsall.
- Prosecutors said he targeted the victim after following her from a bus to her home before carrying out the assault.
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Man jailed for life over brutal rape and Islamophobic assault in Birmingham
An Islamophobe was sentenced to life in jail at Birmingham Crown Court today, for the brutal rape of a Sikh woman whom he believed to be Muslim. Mr Justice Pepperall branded John Ashby, 32, a “deeply unpleasant racist and Islamophobe”for the horrific rape and violent assault of the British Indian Sikh woman in her own […] The post Man jailed for life over brutal rape and Islamophobic assault in Birmingham appeared first on 5Pillars.
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perspectivemedia.comRapist jailed for religiously aggravated attack on Sikh woman in her home
John Ashby targeted his victim and told her he was a ‘British master’ after following her into her home.
Justice Served: Life Sentence for Religious Hate Crime in Walsall
John Ashby, a 32-year-old from the UK, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the religiously aggravated rape of a Sikh woman in Walsall. The court highlighted his extreme danger to women, culminating in a minimum 14-year term. The crime's impact on the victim was profound, altering her life dramatically.
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