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A Crewe man serving 12 years for a stabbing attack received an extra five years for raping a young woman he met at a Nantwich nightclub.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that ironically the victim had been attracted to Dlair Mahmood and thought they might eventually have a consensual sexual relationship.

“But you could not wait,” said Judge Norman Wright.

After the tired victim, who had been drinking, agreed to go back to Mahmood’s home, which was near her friend’s home where she intended staying after leaving the Nantwich club, she soon fell asleep.

“You took advantage of her. She was a guest in your room and she had fallen asleep. You knew she had been drinking and so you decided you were going to have sexual intercourse although she had made it clear it would not take place.”

As he began taking off her lower clothing she came to but fearing she might be strangled she “froze and let him get on with it.” Afterwards she pretended she had just woken up and remonstrated with him.

Mahmood, a Kurd, formerly of Bateman Close, Crewe, denied rape but was convicted after a trial.

Geoffrey Lowe, prosecuting, said that in an impact statement she has been diagnosed with obsessional compulsive personality disorder and now has trust issues and it took her a year after the offence before she could even hug her own dad.

The victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, read some of her statement to the court herself and concluded by saying that she was now able “to let go. I will never be the same person again but I am happier and stronger.”

Judge Wright imposed an indefinite restraining order to keep away from his victim. He also ordered Mahmood to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life.

The five-year jail sentence is to run consecutively to the 12-year sentence he received at Chester Crown Court in November 2014 for wounding Piotr Ivanek.

Carl Hogan, defending, said Mahmood came here in 2001 and before the offences had led a hard-working life for 13 years.