A rapist carried out a series of horrific sex attacks on women working as prostitutes in Derby.
Muhammed Jan approached the victims looking to pay them for their services but once they were alone he would subject them to either rape or sexual assault.
Derby Crown Court was told how the women were vulnerable and some struggled to give statements against the depraved 24-year-old pervert who had violated them.
Jan denied the vile crimes and so forced his victims to give evidence and talk about their horrific ordeals at his hands.
They were persuaded to and to attend court and give their evidence by the policing team which has been praised by a judge for snaring the attacker, of Nightingale Road, Osmaston.
A jury took less than four hours to find Jan guilty of two counts of rape, one of attempted rape and three counts of sexual assault against four different sex workers in the latter part of 2019.
Adjourning his sentence until February, Judge Jonathan Bennett told Jan: “These are extremely serious offences and I think that you, potentially, are a danger to young women, particularly sex workers.
“So I need a (psychiatric) report on whether you are dangerous to the public.”
The trial heard how Jan would solicit the services of the women in Normanton before raping or sexually assaulting them.
After being charged with two counts of sexual assault, police issued a plea for other city sex workers to come forward if they too, had been attacked by Jan.
In total four women bravely did so, two saying he had violently raped them.
The offences all took place close to Arboretum Park, Normanton Road and other areas where sex workers are known to operate in Derby.
The attacks took place between October 27 and December 2 last year.
Judge Bennett said: “I think the officer in the case, DSI Jason Beardsley and his team, are due a lot of credit and I think the Chief Constable should know this.
“This case has been very hard to manage because the women were very vulnerable and it has not been easy getting them to court.
“Most of them really did not want to make complaints.
“There was a very difficult situation at the start of the trial when one of the victims arrived to give evidence and saw the man she claimed had raped her and went to leave.
“She was encouraged to come back and it is because of the proactive work done by the police that Mr Jan has been caught.”
Judge Bennett adjourned the case until Friday, February 19, so that both a psychiatric report and a probation service pre-sentence report can be carried out and prepared to assess whether or not Jan, who needed a Pashtu interpreter for the trial, is a danger to the public or not.
He remanded the defendant into custody until that date.
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