A UK Oxford Crown Court has sentenced a Congolese migrant to 10 years in prison for raping and impregnating a 15-year-old girl.
The man identified as Anicet Mayela,41, committed the crime while he was in a drunken state in December 2023. He pleaded guilty to a single count of rape in April.
Judge Maria Lamb told the defendant he had committed “a terrible offence” when passing the sentence down on Tuesday. He was jailed on Tuesday for 10 years and 10 months and has also been made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for life.
In passing down her judgement, judge Lamb said: “For her, it was her first sexual experience, and the misery that you caused to that child who became pregnant as a result must have been extreme.”
“You continued to deny your offence. Your sentence will be no longer for that, but you don’t have the benefit of remorse, and she doesn’t have the support and assistance of knowing that you acknowledge your guilt.”
Judge Lamb, commenting on the victim impact statement, added: “She is a remarkable young woman who, despite everything that has happened to her and everything that you did to her, has found it possible to forgive you.”
Edward Lucas, prosecuting, told the judge the teenage victim had an abortion in the months following the rape.
The 41-year-old was granted asylum in the UK in 2010 following several failed attempts to deport him.
