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   Two friends who kidnapped a schoolgirl, beat her with nunchucks and repeatedly   
   raped her have been convicted.   
      
   The 17-year-old victim was groomed and exploited as part of a County Lines   
   operation which ran drugs from London to Ipswich, police said.   
      
   She was taken from her home in the Suffolk town by Abdul Howe, 21, who she   
   initially got to know over social media before meeting in London.   
      
   Howe first took her to a hostel in Ipswich, where she was assaulted with   
   nunchucks and raped, before he forced her to travel back to his home address   
   in Hammersmith, west London, where his friend, Ajani Williams, also 21, was   
   waiting for them.   
      
   Over the course of two days, the pair repeatedly raped and assaulted the   
   teenager.   
      
   They eventually allowed her to leave – but not before they forced her into   
   making a voice note that said she had consented to sex.   
      
   The victim, then aged 17, attended Lewisham police station in September 2020   
   to report that she had been kidnapped and raped.   
      
   Although the victim knew the suspects’ street names, she did not know their   
   real identities.   
      
   The Hammersmith address was identified by the victim but was empty when police   
   arrived.   
      
   An image of a man who rented out the room was provided to officers and was   
   quickly identified as Howe.   
      
   He was found at a linked address two days later where he was arrested and   
   charged.   
      
   Forensic officers discovered a fingermark at the scene in Hammersmith which   
   was later found to be a match to Williams.   
      
   The rapist went on the run after he was circulated as wanted but officers   
   tracked him down to a hotel in Bayswater where he was arrested at the end of   
   October in possession of cannabis with a street value of £7,500.   
      
   Searches of the hostel in Ipswich led to the nunchucks and a sword used to   
   threaten the victim being recovered.   
      
   A fingerprint was later found on the sword sheath which identified it as   
   having been used by Howe.   
      
   Blue latex gloves were also recovered, with DNA proving a forensic match to   
   Howe and Williams.   
      
   Howe of Fortunegate Road, Brent, was found guilty of kidnap, rape, possession   
   of an item with a blade or point, sexual assault by penetration, false   
   imprisonment, actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice   
   following an eight-week trial at    
   Isleworth Crown Court.   
      
   Williams, of Keslake Road, Brent, was convicted of false imprisonment, actual   
   bodily harm, rape and perverting the course of justice. He also pleaded guilty   
   to possession with intent to supply a class B drug.   
      
   The victim was given specialist support from an officer on the Metropolitan   
   Police’s sexual offences investigation team who ensured the teenager got   
   back into school where she could continue her studies.   
      
   Detective Constable Tony Larkin, of the Metropolitan Police, who led the   
   investigation, said: “The offences committed by these men against a   
   vulnerable teenage girl are abhorrent and her account is one of the most   
   distressing I have ever heard.   
      
   “They are extremely dangerous individuals and our city will be safer now   
   they are off our streets.   
      
   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teenager-kidnapped-r   
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