Asylum seeker jailed for male rape

A MALE student was raped when he went into a house in Hull after being asked for help by a Kurdish asylum seeker.
The 19-year-old victim was walking home alone along Beverley Road early in the morning when he saw a man outside a house.
The man, Goran Rahim, asked if he knew the time and when the student said he did not Rahim said: "Can you help me, my friend has passed out."
Mark McKone, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court yesterday the student followed Rahim inside and was pulled into a dark room where he was subjected to a series of sexual assaults by three men including being raped by Rahim, who told him: "Shut up, else I'll slit your throat."
Mr Mckone said it was only when a mobile phone went off in the room, distracting the trio, that the complainant opened a window and escaped by climbing out. He then called a friend for help .
The attack was reported to the police and after the student pointed out the house Rahim was found inside. He denied any knowledge of a rape, saying he would have been asleep at that time.
But after his DNA profile matched samples taken from the victim he changed his account.
Mr McKone said Rahim then tried to claim they had consensual sex.
He told officers he had drunk between 10 and 12 cans of Stella and smoked nine to 12 joints of cannabis and said no one else was involved.
Yesterday as he was due to stand trial Rahim, 23, changed his plea and admitted raping the student on February 22.
Judge Stephen Ashurst jailed Rahim for six years, recommended deportation, and said the events had a traumatic effect on the victim.
Judge Ashurst said since Rahim's arrival in the UK he had been in trouble for driving while disqualified and anti-social behaviour.
Tony Stevenson, for Rahim, said he had no history of previous sexual offending