(From left to right) Hilal Mohamed, 22, Abdisalam Mohamad, 21, and Roberto French, 22 (Picture: Police)

Three men have been found guilty of raping a teenage girl after she had been threatened with a machete and robbed.

Roberto French, 22, from Enfield, Abdisalam Mohamad, 21, and Hilal Mohamed, 22, both of N18, were convicted of raping the 16-year-old following the conclusion of a trial at Wood Green Crown Court on Thursday.

The jury further convicted French of the offences of robbery and false imprisonment against the same victim.

All three defendants will be sentenced on March 19 at the same court.


Roberto French followed the victim as she attempted to make her escape (Picture: Met Police)

The court heard how the victim had travelled to London from Bristol on August 13, 2016, where French held a machete against her throat while he robbed her in the presence of the other defendants.



French falsely imprisoned the victim in a residential block in Enfield, and it was here she was forced by the defendants to perform oral sex on each of them.

Once the ordeal was over, French followed the victim as she attempted to make her escape.

He was arrested on August 15, 2016.

Mohamad was arrested on May 26, 2017 and Mohamed on February 12, 2018.

All were subsequently charged.

Abdisalam Mohamad is facing a long sentence (Picture: Police)

Hilal Mohamed was part of a gang that raped the girl (Picture: Police)

Detective Sergeant Charlotte Carter, of the North Area Safeguarding Team, said: ‘Roberto French, Abdisalam Mohamad and Hilal Mohamed put this young schoolgirl through a horrific ordeal.

‘She was threatened with a machete, held against her will and raped multiple times.

‘The victim and her family have shown tremendous strength and patience in supporting a prosecution, I would like to commend their courage, particularly in facing the defendants in court. It is due to their strength that three dangerous individuals have been convicted.

‘I am hopeful that sentencing will reflect the severity of these offences and the trauma suffered by the victim.’

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