A convicted rapist called ‘Peaches’ who brutally attacked a woman in her own home was branded a ‘dangerous sexual predator’.

Ahmed ‘Peaches’ Said was out of prison on licence, having been jailed for eight years in 2019 for a stranger rape in Bristol, when he met his victim on Park End Street, Oxford, in the early hours of December 17 last year.

The 37-year-old attacked the woman in her own home, leaving blood splattered across the walls. She managed to escape only after pressing her thumb into the attacker’s eye.

In an impact statement, she told the judge: “I hope - but I doubt – I will ever be the same person again.”

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Jailing him for 51 months and imposing an extended nine-month licence period, Judge Nigel Daly rejected the defendant’s claim that the attack did not have a sexual motive.

“I can think of no other purpose, no logical reason to attack this woman in these circumstances but because you were trying to sexually assault her,” the judge said.

“You may not have succeeded but what on earth was behind this if that were not the case is utterly beyond me.”

Judge Daly added: “You quite clearly see drunk, young women not in need of protection and assistance, but you see them as vulnerable to exploitation, particularly sexual exploitation, and I judge you are an extremely dangerous sexual predator.”

Said met the victim while waiting for a taxi on Park End Street in the early hours of December 17.

With his friend, they shared a cab to East Oxford and the trio went into the woman’s flat so the two men could wait for another taxi.

The three drank tequila at the flat then, shortly after the two men left, Said returned. He had left his phone in the property, although lawyers acting for him denied that he had left his mobile phone behind as a ‘ruse’.

Prosecuting, Jonathan Stone said: “He said to her that he was staying the night and she told him no, you’re not and told him to leave.”

He did not leave and, instead, got ‘much closer to her’. He pushed her against the wall and, in the victim’s words, his ‘hands were everywhere, pulling at her legs and body’.

Said lifted her dress and grabbed her right thigh. "She thought his intention at that stage was of a sexual nature," Mr Stone said.

He was said to have throttled her and pulled out her hair. He banged her head against the wall and the victim end up on her back.

“The only way she could get away was to gouge him in the eye,” Mr Stone said.

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She managed to run from the flat and sought sanctuary at a neighbour’s property. The neighbour described her as ‘barefoot, upset, crying, covered in blood’.

She had 'never been so scared in her life', she told him.

The victim was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital where, Mr Stone said, the medical evidence pointed to her having taken a ‘considerable beating’. There were more than 50 separate injuries to her, it was said.

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Arrested and interviewed by the police, Said suggested he had acted in self-defence. Mr Stone made it clear that was not accepted by the Crown.

Said, formerly of Clarks Row, Oxford, had originally faced more serious sexual assault charges but pleaded guilty shortly before his trial to causing actual bodily harm. The ABH charge carries a maximum sentence of five years’ imprisonment.

He had 15 convictions, including for robbery and what the prosecutor described as the ‘particularly nasty’ rape of a stranger on the streets of Bristol.

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As in the Oxford case, he had left his mobile phone at the scene of the offence in Bristol. The victim in that case used Said’s phone to call 999 and report the assault on her.

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In mitigation, Sumita Mahtab-Shaikh told Oxford Crown Court that her client was ‘ashamed’ of himself.

During his latest period in custody he had gained enhanced prisoner status and a job as a cleaner, and was hopeful of doing courses he had not previously benefitted from.

“He knows he has top stop acting like this.

He knows he’s going to get close to the maximum sentence today,” the barrister said.