One-legged Barking rapist jailed for raping girl, 15, in Stratford

Mohammed Farah from Barking was jailed for nine years after raping a 15-year-old girl Picture: Met Police Archant

A one-legged 38-year-old man who raped a 15-year-old girl and threatened to kill her has been jailed for nine years.

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A one-legged 38-year-old man who raped a 15-year-old girl and threatened to kill her has been jailed for nine years.

Mohammed Farah of Hurstbourne Gardens, Barking, was also given a 10-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order after being sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, May 26, after he lured the teenager to Torrens Square in Stratford on Sunday, October 2, 2016.

After drinking beer with the girl, he touched her and she told him to stop.

Farah stopped and told her not to run away as he’d lost one leg in a motorbike accident.

After convincing her to stay, he raped her and threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

But on Monday, October 17, last year police attended an address in Waltham Forest where the girl reported the rape, describing her attacker as “Mo Farah” and telling them he only had one leg.

After being arrested at his home in Barking, Farah denied raping the girl and said he’d never even met her.

But CCTV cameras captured him walking with his victim to Torrens Square.

After being charged with rape of a female under 16 years of age, he was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday, April 4.

Det Const Sarah Towe of the Met’s Sexual Offences Exploitation and Child Abuse Command (SOECA) said Farah was a deceitful, dangerous rapist who also raped a 17-year-old in May 2010.

“Farah is a dangerous individual who preyed on an extremely vulnerable girl and used his disability to gain her trust,” she said. “Believing she was safe in his company, the girl went with Farah to a secluded area where he then raped her.

“Farah denied all involvement in this case until CCTV was produced which disproved his original defence. Even faced with this evidence, he continued maintain his innocence, but a jury was able to come to a unanimous verdict. This investigation was a real team effort by the SOECA unit and I am pleased that a dangerous rapist is now behind bars.”

Farah was sentenced to six years in jail in September 2011 after raping a girl in Barking Park after he’d been drinking with friends.

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