A Sudanese sex attacker who raped a tourist outside a railway station after he was granted asylum in the UK is facing jail today.

Salah Koubar, 19, dragged the young South Korean woman into some bushes and ripped off her clothing after befriending her in central London.

The attack happened just before 6am on July 26 last year outside south London’s West Dulwich station, on what had been the last day of the victim’s holiday.

The violent attack happened in some bushes after the pair had met at Freedom Bar in Soho

Koubar showed no emotion after he was convicted of rape by a majority verdict of 11-1 this afternoon, after a trial at Blackfriars Crown Court.

The jury was told how the teenager had chatted to the woman at the Freedom Bar in Soho before urging her to join him at a livelier venue just three stops away by bus.

She trusted his promise of a better bar but when they ended up at Vauxhall station the woman realised she was a long way from her hotel in Kings Cross.

When she tried to call a taxi, Koubar took her bag from her and insisted the next bus they took would take them back to central London, the court heard.

But the train actually took them further out of town to West Dulwich station.

Koubar threw her over the railings into the bushes where he forced himself upon her.

In a taped police interview, the woman said Koubar had told her he was taking her to a club called VIP in Westminster.

She said she started to become anxious when she googled the name of the club and nothing came up.

After more than two hours of travelling around south London, Koubar forced himself on her in the bushes outside the station.

Speaking through an interpreter, she said: ‘I told him don’t you think about your mother and sisters? He didn’t listen to me, he was mad, he was in a state of madness.’

Following the incident, southbound trains were unable to stop at the station while the pathway to a platform was cordoned off by British Transport Police.

Warwick Tatford, prosecuting, told the court that a passenger catching an early train heard the woman’s screams and saw her running along the platform in nothing but her knickers and a t-shirt.

Mr Tatford said: ‘The female grabbed his (the passenger’s) arm and tried to use him as a human shield against the defendant.

‘He described the female as ‘shaking like a leaf and with tears in her eyes’.

‘He said she looked like she’d been dragged through a hedge backwards - little did he know that’s pretty much what had happened.

‘He said the defendant appeared calm - or “a bit too calm really”.’

When he realised the witness was about to call the police Koubar jumped on a train seconds before the doors closed.

Koubar, who came to the UK via France and was granted asylum in this country, was arrested two days after the attack on 28 July.

In interview gave a prepared statement saying he had paid the woman £200 for sex, but no intimacy had taken place.

Koubar later claimed he then snatched her bag to try and get his money back.

He refused to provide police with swabs from his groin, but provided standard saliva and hair samples.

Following the jury’s decision a letter written by the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was read in court.

In it she said: ‘I trusted him.

‘I had no romantic intention with him at all.

‘He betrayed my trust.

‘I was really scared when he was doing what he was doing.

Koubar, of Beckenham, Kent, was convicted of rape at Blackfriars Crown Court, pictured

‘I thought he might kill me because of his action and power.

‘If a member of the public had not come to help me he could have done more.’

The woman had to delay her return trip to Korea for two weeks following the attack and lived for some time in the fear she might have contracted HIV before tests gave her the all clear.

She said in a letter read to the court: ‘I was wearing a short dress and thought I was looking attractive and pretty.

‘After the attack I felt it was my fault as I was wearing a short dress.

‘I do not feel pretty anymore.

‘I now buy long skirts and dresses.’

The victim said she believes Korea is a safer country than Britain, but still cannot bring herself to go out after dark.

The judge, Mr Recorder Timothy Greene praised the victim’s ‘courage’ for coming back to London from Korea to give evidence against Koubar.

He echoed the woman’s earlier words by saying: ‘There were two men in Dulwich, a good man and a bad man.

‘I would like to say thank you to the good man, his intervention stopped anything worse happening.’

Koubar, of Beckenham, Kent, was convicted of rape.

Recorder Greene told him: 'You have been convicted of a very serious offence which carries a substantial term of imprisonment.

'Though I have asked for a report I do not want you to think there will be anything other than a long prison sentence because of it.

'I do not know very much about you at all, you did not give evidence, I do not know about your background or what led you to this.'