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Sami Khreis approached his first victim as the young woman walked alone from a ByWard Market bar in the early hours of Oct. 18, 2017.

“I’m a nice guy, let me help you,” he told her as they walked to a nearby parking garage, where she met her friends and retrieved her car keys and bank card.

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Her next memory is awakening in the man’s bed, still clothed with Khreis telling her to “shut up b—-” as he raped her.

He kept her bank card after she fled and emptied $400 from her account, then tried to cash a fraudulent cheque at various downtown bank machines, according to facts read into the court record this week.

For what Justice Robert Wadden called “abhorrent crimes,” Khreis, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault and four counts of fraud after preying on young women while posing as an Uber driver.

“The fact you would prey on young women (in this manner) shows planning, premeditation and predatory behaviour on your part,” Wadden told Khreis as he handed down a four-year sentence.