Predatory rapist brothers sentenced to 16 years in jail

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LONDON: Two brothers who preyed on women leaving bars and nightclubs before carrying out sexual assaults have been convicted. Nazmul Ahmed, 26, and Selim Ahmed, 32, both of Cromer Street, Camden, were found guilty following separate trials at Wood Green Crown Court earlier this year.

Met Police have reported that on Friday, 1 May, Nazmul Ahmed was sentenced at the same court to a total of 16 years’ imprisonment with an extended period of four years on license. He will be on the sex offenders register for life.

Nazmul Ahmed

During sentencing, the judge referred to Nazmul Ahmed as a “predator” and a “ruthless and callous serial sex offender.”

Selim Ahmed will be sentenced at the same court on 22 May.

The court heard that on Sunday, 15 September 2018, a woman in her 20s was out with friends when she was approached by men in a car on Russell Square, WC1. She got into the vehicle and fell asleep, awaking to find herself alone with Nazmul Ahmed who was sexually assaulting her. She was then driven home and reported the assault to police who began an investigation.

On Saturday, 2 March 2019, a woman in her 20s woke up after a night out in Tottenham Court Road and found herself in a hotel room on Bedford Place, WC1. She had no memory of the previous evening and was alone in the room. She found her phone and bank cards missing, and later discovered that money had been withdrawn from her account.

Enquiries revealed she had been raped by a man later identified as Nazmul Ahmed, who had also defrauded her of around £3,000 with the assistance of Dora Vavrova, his partner at the time. Less than a month later, on 27 March 2019, a woman in her 20s accepted a lift home from Nazmul Ahmed after leaving a bar in Shoreditch.

After getting into the front passenger seat, she fell asleep in the car and woke up to find him sexually assaulting her.

He later dropped her off at her home address, where she realised he had taken money from her bank account.

She reported the offences to police who arrested him the following day after identifying him through CCTV, bank enquiries and forensic results. This also linked him to the earlier offence on Saturday, 2 March and later, to the first incident in September 2018.

Their enquiries later identified that his brother Selim Ahmed was responsible for a similar attack on Sunday, 27 January 2019.

A woman, aged in her 20s, was waiting for a bus on Great Eastern Street, EC2 at around 00:25hrs when she was approached by Selim Ahmed in his car. He told her he was a taxi driver and that he could take her home. A passenger in the car, Levi Croll, reassured her this was the case and so she got into the vehicle.

She was then driven around residential streets while Selim tried to obtain money from her bank account and sexually assaulted her when they briefly got out of the car. Selim was arrested at his home address on Wednesday, 19 June 2019 and later charged.

On Thursday, 13 February at Wood Green Crown Court, Nazmul Ahmed was found guilty of one count of rape, two counts of assault by penetration, one count of theft, one count of fraud and one count of money laundering.

At the same trial, Dora Vavrova of Euston, was found guilty of fraud by false representation and acquiring criminal property and on Friday 1st May was sentenced to a community order with an unpaid work requirement of 140 hours.

On Thursday, 12 March at the same court, Selim Ahmed was found guilty of one count of kidnap and one count of sexual assault. He had previously pleaded guilty to using a bank card stolen by his brother in the Bedford Place offence.

Levi Croll 19 (02.11.00) of Dundee, London, was also found guilty of one count of kidnap. Both will be sentenced on 22 May.

Detective Inspector Louise Caveen, from the Met’s Central North safeguarding team, led the investigation. She said: “Nazmul and Selim Ahmed are predatory offenders who have deliberately targeted vulnerable women to sexually assault and defraud them.