Overview
- The 35-year-old, Amin Abedi Mofrad, was convicted by a jury of rape and sexual assault by penetration and received a 12½-year sentence with a three-year extended licence.
- The attack on the 15-year-old happened near Oxford’s Westgate Shopping Centre on February 14 last year after an under‑18s club night.
- Thames Valley Police credited the victim’s cooperation, Project Vigilant patrols and new evidence recovered from Mofrad’s mobile phone in December for securing charges and a conviction.
- Court reporting said Mofrad arrived in the UK on a small boat in 2023 and had multiple prior violent convictions in Germany between 2014 and 2019, with a later UK theft conviction and a separate 2023 sexual assault allegation that was dropped.
- After sentencing, the girl’s mother wrote to the Home Secretary asking why he was in the country, as the Home Office said the case will be referred for deportation action against a foreign national offender.