Tahir Nazir was jailed for 12 years (Picture: Cavendish)

A businessman who went on a 7,000 mile ‘rape tour’ of Britain’s universities has been jailed for 12 years.

Tahir Nazir, 40, used freshers’ fortnight and other college events to sneak into student accommodation in Scotland, England and Wales in the hope of targeting drunk undergraduates.

CCTV captured him as he prowled student halls late at night attempting to open doors.

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CCTV of Tahir Nazir in a halls of residence (Picture: Cavendish)

One young woman who had been to a Halloween party in Manchester woke up in horror to find a half-naked Nazir licking her neck and trying to rape her.



In another incident in Cardiff he was seen lying on top of a woman as she lay drunk. Luckily her housemates eventually forced him to leave.

Det Con Matt Gregory of Greater Manchester Police said: ‘I hope the sentence passed today will give his victims some sort of comfort knowing that Nazir is off the streets and will spend the next 12 years in prison where he won’t be able to hurt anybody like this.’

Nazir – who claims to be managing director of a hospitality and entertainment company – was arrested last November after a group of female undergraduates reported someone trying to open the doors to their room.

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He reportedly went on a 7,000 mile ‘rape tour’ of Britain’s universities (Picture: Cavendish)

Police found empty packets of Viagra in his car and a fake ID claiming he was student at Glasgow University.

Prosecutors said he had driven 7,000 miles on a tour of university towns Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Oxford, Bristol and Cardiff, during which he slept in his car.

It emerged he would swallow Viagra tablets and snort cocaine in a bid to heighten his sexual appetite.

Yesterday at Manchester Crown Court Nazir, from Glasgow, was jailed for 12 years after he was convicted of trespass with intent to commit an offence, sexual assault, attempted rape, and three charges of trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence.

He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offender Register for life.

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