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A remorseless rapist attacked a pensioner and sexually assaulted a child while ‘trawling the streets at night time looking for vulnerable individuals’, a court heard. Issa Brayzi-Pour, 22, has been jailed for public protection after committing the attacks on two complete strangers in Farnworth.
The child said she feels that ‘she’s had her freedom taken away’ while the woman said she no longer feels safe since being raped, and has undergone counselling. Prosecutors claimed Brayzi-Pour had been ‘out trawling the streets at night time looking for vulnerable individuals’.
He had been in the country for about 10 months after arriving in the UK as an asylum seeker from Iran. The 70-year-old woman had been to the pub with members of her family where a boxing match was being shown, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
At one point she left the pub and Brayzi-Pour ‘stalked’ and ‘followed’ her, prosecutor Henry Blackshaw claimed. They engaged in conversation, and she feared that Brayzi-Pour was going to rob her.
Ms Blackshaw said that Brayzi-Pour had taken hold of her, and was ‘effectively steering her around corners’. But as they reached a side road Brayzi-Pour raped her, during the summer last year….
The court heard how the woman has suffered ‘significant and severe’ psychological issues, and ‘life changing problems’. It was then discovered that Brayzi-Pour had sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl 12 days earlier, also in Farnworth.
She recognised Brayzi-Pour as someone who had given her and her friends cigarettes a few days beforehand.
When she asked him for another cigarette, Brayzi-Pour asked her to perform oral sex on him and tried to kiss her, after she followed him onto some ‘waste ground’. “There was clearly discussion about tobacco and she was lured to an isolated spot nearby, with the promise of it there,” Mr Blackshaw said.
Defending, Bunty Batra said Brayzi-Pour has no criminal record in the UK or his home country. He said people who know him reacted with ‘shock’ to his crimes, and that he was described as being ‘respectful and polite’.
Mr Batra denied there was any element of ‘grooming’ towards the child, claiming their interaction was ‘extremely brief’. He also denied that Brayzi-Pour had ‘targeted’ the pensioner or that he’d been ‘trawling the streets’.
Brayzi-Pour, of Longcauseway, Farnworth, Bolton, was unanimously found guilty of two counts of rape and of offences of sexual assault and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. The judge, Recorder Andrew McLoughlin, said Brayzi-Pour still maintains his victims consented to his behaviour.
But he said Brayzi-Pour’s version of events ‘bears no relationship whatsoever’ to the evidence. “There is no remorse shown by you, because you believe somehow that all these matters took place with the victims’ consent, they clearly did not do so,” the judge said….
A remorseless rapist attacked a pensioner and sexually assaulted a child while ‘trawling the streets at night time looking for vulnerable individuals’, a court heard. Issa Brayzi-Pour, 22, has been jailed for public protection after committing the attacks on two complete strangers in Farnworth.
The child said she feels that ‘she’s had her freedom taken away’ while the woman said she no longer feels safe since being raped, and has undergone counselling. Prosecutors claimed Brayzi-Pour had been ‘out trawling the streets at night time looking for vulnerable individuals’.
He had been in the country for about 10 months after arriving in the UK as an asylum seeker from Iran. The 70-year-old woman had been to the pub with members of her family where a boxing match was being shown, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
At one point she left the pub and Brayzi-Pour ‘stalked’ and ‘followed’ her, prosecutor Henry Blackshaw claimed. They engaged in conversation, and she feared that Brayzi-Pour was going to rob her.
Ms Blackshaw said that Brayzi-Pour had taken hold of her, and was ‘effectively steering her around corners’. But as they reached a side road Brayzi-Pour raped her, during the summer last year….
The court heard how the woman has suffered ‘significant and severe’ psychological issues, and ‘life changing problems’. It was then discovered that Brayzi-Pour had sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl 12 days earlier, also in Farnworth.
She recognised Brayzi-Pour as someone who had given her and her friends cigarettes a few days beforehand.
When she asked him for another cigarette, Brayzi-Pour asked her to perform oral sex on him and tried to kiss her, after she followed him onto some ‘waste ground’. “There was clearly discussion about tobacco and she was lured to an isolated spot nearby, with the promise of it there,” Mr Blackshaw said.
Defending, Bunty Batra said Brayzi-Pour has no criminal record in the UK or his home country. He said people who know him reacted with ‘shock’ to his crimes, and that he was described as being ‘respectful and polite’.
Mr Batra denied there was any element of ‘grooming’ towards the child, claiming their interaction was ‘extremely brief’. He also denied that Brayzi-Pour had ‘targeted’ the pensioner or that he’d been ‘trawling the streets’.
Brayzi-Pour, of Longcauseway, Farnworth, Bolton, was unanimously found guilty of two counts of rape and of offences of sexual assault and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. The judge, Recorder Andrew McLoughlin, said Brayzi-Pour still maintains his victims consented to his behaviour.
But he said Brayzi-Pour’s version of events ‘bears no relationship whatsoever’ to the evidence. “There is no remorse shown by you, because you believe somehow that all these matters took place with the victims’ consent, they clearly did not do so,” the judge said….
