Overview
- A jury found 27-year-old Qudus Ajeyemi guilty of attempted rape and sexual assault following a week-long trial, and he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison.
- The victim recorded Ajeyemi admitting and apologising for the conduct during a FaceTime call, and prosecutors said that recording was decisive evidence at trial.
- Detectives from Humberside Police’s Protecting Vulnerable People Unit investigated after the woman reported the incident in March 2023 and identified Ajeyemi, nicknamed 'Spartan', as the suspect.
- Ajeyemi denied the allegations in police interview despite the recording being played to him; on Tuesday he was ordered to join the Sex Offenders Register for life and given a seven-year restraining order, with deportation to Nigeria to follow his sentence.
- Police praised the victim’s decision to report the attack and highlighted specialist victim support and the role of contemporaneous evidence in securing convictions for offences that exploit drink-related vulnerability.