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   "So eager were you to have sex with her that she had not closed her door when   
   you drove off."   
      
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   Yoseab Woldeab has been jailed for raping and kidnapping a young woman in   
   April last year (Image: Devon and Cornwall Police)   
      
   A "depraved" man who tricked a young woman into believing he was a taxi driver   
   before kidnapping and raping her has been jailed.   
      
   Earlier this month, January 10, Yuseab Woldeab, an Eritrean refugee, was found   
   guilty of one count of vaginal rape, one count of anal rape and one count of   
   kidnap.   
      
   Woldeab, of Wilton Street in Millbridge, Plymouth, picked up his victim in   
   Union Street on April 25 last year as she staggered home, following a night   
   out with two of her friends.   
      
   The woman, who is in her late 20s, had been to a number of venues and was   
   under the influence of alcohol, Plymouth Crown Court heard.   
      
   Investigators showed how Woldeab was spotted on CCTV driving his white Ford   
   Fiesta around the city centre after he had been out at Revolutions nightclub.   
      
   The foreman of the jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict to all three   
   counts, reports Plymouth Live.   
      
   Woldeab returned to court today, January 26, where he was sentenced to 18   
   years in jail for the horrific attack.   
      
   He sat in the dock with his arms folded and with an expressionless look on his   
   face as he refused to look at the packed public gallery.   
      
   Peter Rouch KC, prosecuting, read a statement from the victim, in which she   
   told how her "whole life has been turned upside down".   
      
   In her statement, she went on to explain that she had never had sex with a man   
   before and had never been attracted to men.   
      
   She continued: "I've lost my sense of identity. He's taken that all away from   
   me, it was not his to take."   
      
   The court also heard how the victim could not take her clothes off after the   
   attack and was unable to look at herself naked.   
      
   She said: "I was disgusted even though I had done nothing wrong".   
      
   The victim added: "Even after he had been arrested, I couldn't bear to be   
   alone and would barricade my door.   
      
   "I cannot leave my flat without someone else with me due to the fear that   
   something bad could happen.   
      
   "I'm now a shadow of my former self. I resent him [Woldeab] for making me feel   
   guilty."   
      
   Her statement added that she was now planning to leave Plymouth.   
      
   Mr Rouch urged Judge Peter Johnson to consider a category one sentence, the   
   most serious classification, due to the harm and psychological damage imposed   
   on the victim.   
      
   Defence barrister Nick Lewin argued that a category two sentence was more   
   appropriate.   
      
   Mr Lewin informed the judge that his client was "performing well in prison"   
   and that he had no previous convictions.   
      
   He added: "He's not an individual without some worth."   
      
   Judge Johnson then addressed Woldeab directly and referenced the CCTV footage.   
      
   After describing to the court the moment Woldeab falsely informed the victim   
   that he was a taxi driver, Judge Johnson said: "So eager were you to have sex   
   with her that she had not closed her door when you drove off."   
      
   Previously, Woldeab told the court that, before engaging in sexual   
   intercourse, he and the victim had discussed "positions".   
      
   Today, Judge Johnson dismissed these claims as a "desperate series of   
   bare-faced lies".   
      
   He added that his defence had been "nonsense" and that he had not shown "one   
   scintilla of remorse" for what he had done.   
      
   Judge Johnson dismissed the defence's suggestion of a category two sentencing   
   and instead opted for a category 1b sentence, which has a starting sentence   
   period of 12 years.   
      
      
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