A HIV positive Zimbabwean refugee has been jailed for raping a 17-year-old girl in Britain

Daily Mail:

An HIV positive refugee who was granted asylum after falsely claiming he was homosexual, was jailed today for raping a 17-year-old girl.

Zimbabwean Gabriel Vengesai, 45, also had consensual unprotected sex with a 14-year-old girl who bore him a child, Winchester Crown Court heard.

The former pub landlord, who claimed he was homosexual so he could stay in Britain, was on bail for having sex with the girl when he violently raped the 17-year-old at his flat in Aldershot, Hampshire, last October.

Sentencing, Judge Tom Longbotham said Vengesai was such a high risk to woman that he jailed him under public protection legislation and said the minimum term he would serve would be six and half years before his release could be considered.

Vengesai's victims, and the child he fathered, did not contract HIV.

He had fled to Britain in 1996 and was given leave to stay because he said he was homosexual and subject to intimidation in Zimbabwe.

But he had a long-term girlfriend, the court was told.

Judge Longbotham also said Vengesai would be deported if he was ever released.

Vengesai was found guilty of rape and engaging in sexual activity with the 14-year-old in a trial at Winchester in April.

The jury was told that Vengesai met the 17-year-old at an arcade in Aldershot and she and a friend went back to his flat. He then took her to his bedroom and raped her violently, causing internal injuries.

The girl managed to escape only when alcohol that had been ordered arrived and she and her friend fled and called the police.

Vengesai told detectives he had used a condom during sex, which he maintained was consensual. But he later changed his story and admitted he had not used a condom because he had got carried away.

The court heard the rape victim was forced to give evidence against her attacker not even knowing whether she had contracted the disease. It was only at the end of the trial she was given the all clear.

Vengesai had consensual unprotected sex with the 14-year-old in May 2005 at a Farnborough flat, despite knowing the girl's mother.

Judge Longbotham told Vengesai: "You are HIV positive and at all relevant times you knew you were HIV positive. You had unprotected sex with the 14-year-old girl and as a result she became pregnant and gave birth to a child."

The judge said the rape victim had the "misfortune" of meeting up with Vengesai.

"You were so much older and, no doubt persuasive. It's also clear from your behaviour towards these two girls there was some premeditation in taking them back to the flat," he said.

"You didn't take no for an answer. The girl made it perfectly clear she did not consent. You raped her violently. You held her hands, you restrained her and had intercourse with her without a condom. The attack was so violent she was injured."

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