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An Indian student in the UK who was captured on CCTV carrying a woman home to rape her has been sentenced to six years and nine months in jail.
CCTV footage of an Indian student carrying an "intoxicated" woman in his arms to his room before raping her has gone viral. Preet Vikal, 20, also took a 'trophy photograph' of the victim in his bed before attacking her, The Daily Mail reported.
He admitted rape and was sentenced to six years and nine months in a young offenders' institution, the BBC reported.
The engineering student carried the girl to his room after meeting her outside Cardiff club in the UK in June last year, reports said. Preet Vikal encountered the "hopelessly intoxicated" woman outside a music venue in the Welsh capital and took advantage of her vulnerable state, the court heard.
Prosecutor Matthew Cobbe said Vikal and the victim, who did not know each other, went out with separate groups of friends.
The CCTV footage played in the court showed Preet carrying the victim in his arms and later across his shoulders at around 4am. He then laid her on the ground and lifted her to her feet, the video shows. As they passed the Blackweir pub, the victim was walking but leaning heavily on Vikal.
"She was bleeding. She found her clothes folded, got out of bed and got dressed. The victim asked for the defendant's Instagram address and once she left, she messaged him asking him if they had sex, and if so, whether they had used protection, "prosecutor Matthew Cobbe said.
"The answer she had was that yes, they had, but they had not used protection."
The court heard that Vikal sent the picture to a friend later that day and said in the chat that he had "forgotten" to use a condom.
After learning about what had transpired, the woman reached out to the police and Preet was arrested on the same day. He gave a prepared statement claiming the victim had been a "willing participant".
The prosecutor said it was clear the victim was too drunk to consent to sex. But Vikal pleaded not guilty before he finally admitted the rape on the day of trial.
'REAL SHINING STAR'
Louise Sweet, mitigating, said her client was "a real shining star", The Daily Mail reported.
"Coming from a village north of Delhi, he is a young man who worked extremely hard, so much so he won a scholarship to support his study in engineering. He was the first of his family to go to university, the first of his village to go overseas and study. He was fulfilling his dreams to come here and those of his parents," Louise Sweet said.
Detective Constable Nick Woodland from South Wales Police told the BBC: "Stranger attacks such as these are extremely unusual in Cardiff but in Preet Vikal we had a dangerous individual.He took advantage of an intoxicated and vulnerable young woman who became separated from her friends."
According to police, an "extensive" trawl of CCTV led to Vikal being identified and arrested. Vikal will serve two thirds of his sentence in custody and the remainder on licence.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/sto...r-gets-6-yrs-in-jail-video-2394537-2023-06-18
CCTV footage of an Indian student carrying an "intoxicated" woman in his arms to his room before raping her has gone viral. Preet Vikal, 20, also took a 'trophy photograph' of the victim in his bed before attacking her, The Daily Mail reported.
He admitted rape and was sentenced to six years and nine months in a young offenders' institution, the BBC reported.
The engineering student carried the girl to his room after meeting her outside Cardiff club in the UK in June last year, reports said. Preet Vikal encountered the "hopelessly intoxicated" woman outside a music venue in the Welsh capital and took advantage of her vulnerable state, the court heard.
Prosecutor Matthew Cobbe said Vikal and the victim, who did not know each other, went out with separate groups of friends.
The CCTV footage played in the court showed Preet carrying the victim in his arms and later across his shoulders at around 4am. He then laid her on the ground and lifted her to her feet, the video shows. As they passed the Blackweir pub, the victim was walking but leaning heavily on Vikal.
"She was bleeding. She found her clothes folded, got out of bed and got dressed. The victim asked for the defendant's Instagram address and once she left, she messaged him asking him if they had sex, and if so, whether they had used protection, "prosecutor Matthew Cobbe said.
"The answer she had was that yes, they had, but they had not used protection."
The court heard that Vikal sent the picture to a friend later that day and said in the chat that he had "forgotten" to use a condom.
After learning about what had transpired, the woman reached out to the police and Preet was arrested on the same day. He gave a prepared statement claiming the victim had been a "willing participant".
The prosecutor said it was clear the victim was too drunk to consent to sex. But Vikal pleaded not guilty before he finally admitted the rape on the day of trial.
'REAL SHINING STAR'
Louise Sweet, mitigating, said her client was "a real shining star", The Daily Mail reported.
"Coming from a village north of Delhi, he is a young man who worked extremely hard, so much so he won a scholarship to support his study in engineering. He was the first of his family to go to university, the first of his village to go overseas and study. He was fulfilling his dreams to come here and those of his parents," Louise Sweet said.
Detective Constable Nick Woodland from South Wales Police told the BBC: "Stranger attacks such as these are extremely unusual in Cardiff but in Preet Vikal we had a dangerous individual.He took advantage of an intoxicated and vulnerable young woman who became separated from her friends."
According to police, an "extensive" trawl of CCTV led to Vikal being identified and arrested. Vikal will serve two thirds of his sentence in custody and the remainder on licence.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/sto...r-gets-6-yrs-in-jail-video-2394537-2023-06-18
