A rapist who targeted lesbians in Manchester’s popular Gay Village has been jailed for 20 years.

Ashfaq Khan, 60, attacked women who were ‘lone and vulnerable’ and even raped one victim ‘while she was vomiting’.

He impersonated a taxi driver before giving his victims a lift and then attacking them, Manchester Crown court heard.

Ashfaq Khan, 60, has been jailed for 20 years (Picture: MEN)

A second woman was forced to drink Sambuca alcohol at Khan’s house after being taken there after she fell asleep in his car.


Khan, from Calbourne Crescent in Longsight, south Manchester, was jailed after being found guilty of three counts of rape.

The offences against the two women took place in the summer of 2017 after they visited the New York, New York nightclub, in the Gay Village.



Khan approached the first victim when she was by herself after she had left the club.

When she got in his car he drove her to a secluded spot, throttled her and then raped her twice.

Khan then drove her home.

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He also convinced his second victim to get into his car when he returned to the club weeks later.

The woman fell asleep in the vehicle and when she woke up she was at Khan’s house.

The frightened victim sent a text message to her partner saying ‘I don’t know where I am, baby’.

Another text read: ‘Help me, please.’

The Gay Village in Manchester, Canal Street (Picture: Google Maps)

She also sent a picture of the room to her sister, with the caption ‘help’ but none of the messages were received until the next morning.

Khan raped her after forcing her to drink shots of sambuca, the court heard.

The picture evidence she took was later used to convict him.

In victim statements read out in court, both women said they now suffered from nightmares, panic attacks and flashbacks.

It also emerged Khan had previously been convicted for assault by penetration around 10 years ago.

Sentencing, Judge Timothy Smith described Khan as a ‘predatory and manipulative rapist’.

He said: ‘You set out with a single-minded determination, to find lone drunk vulnerable women with one purpose on your mind, to rape.

‘You centred on the Gay Village area of Manchester as you particular place of interest, where you felt you were able to pick up and rape women with impunity.’

Khan must serve two-thirds of his 20-year sentence in prison.

He was also handed an extended five-year licence period.

Khan had denied the offences.

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