London boroughs with the highest rape case numbers

By Rebecca Spencer

There has been little let-up in the number of brutal rapes by predatory monsters on the streets of South London, despite the restrictions of lockdown limiting the number of days people were allowed out.

Croydon and Lambeth had the highest reported incidents of rape in 2020 from January to November of all London boroughs, according to new government data.

Croydon was the worst London borough with 419 reported rapes, and Lambeth had the next worst record with 368.

These figures have dropped slightly from the same period in 2019, where Croydon had 448 reported rapes and Lambeth had 399.

The government data was not broken down into domestic rape and street rape, so it is unclear whether the lockdowns experienced over 2020 caused the decrease in these figures.

Most South London boroughs experienced a drop in reported rapes from January to November of 2019 to the same period in 2020, but Kensington and Chelsea experienced a 12.8 per cent rise in reported rapes.

Convictions and sentence for grim-faced monsters who preyed on women

A security car patrol officer was conVicted of raping a woman in an empty Westminster car park while on duty – and then claiming the sex was consensual.

Sola Warikwah, 39, from Deptford, attacked the victim in the back of his company car after she mistakenly got in believing that he was a taxi driver who had come to pick her up.

The victim had been drinking in a nightclub in east London before she arrived in the Embankment area and encountered Warikwah in the early hours of Easter Monday on April 22, 2019.

Warikwah worked as a security patrol manager for contractor Securitas and was patrolling areas of central London between 7pm on April 21 and 7am on April 22 last year. This included the car park in Belgravia where the victim was raped.

During her ordeal, the Victim managed to send messages to a friend. She wrote: “I’ve been raped. I feel sick. This taxi won’t take me home.”

A potential rape victim ensuring her attacker was convicted after she bit and scratched him so he could be identified.

Cops were also able to track his Tube journey home on CCTV footage.

Police used DNA from under her fingernails to help convict Khaled Argoub.

Argoub, 21, of Garratt Terrace, Tooting was sentenced on Thursday of last week at Kingston Crown Court after being found guilty of two counts of attempted rape, attempting to choke with intent, assault by penetration and three counts of sexual assault.

He was given an extended sentence of 22 years for count one of attempted rape. 14 of those he will spend in custody. He will be considered for parole after serving two thirds of the 14 years.

A man was convicted for raping a woman who was lost after being dropped by a taxi at the wrong destination.

Danut Bulboana, 21, of no fixed abode, was, at Woolwich Crown Court, on Monday, August 3 found guilty of two counts of rape and one count of attempting to choke.

The court heard that on August 27, 2019 at around 11.30pm, the victim – a woman in her late 20s – was targeted by Bulboana and subjected to a serious sexual assault in a wooded area near Catford Bridge railway station.

The victim had been making her way home after a night out with a friend but became lost after she was dropped at the wrong destination by a taxi.

The victim recalled suddenly finding herself in an unfamiliar wooded area with an unknown male – later identified as Bulboana.

The sexual attack then took place. She tried to scream but Bulboana stifled her cries by forcing something into her mouth, choking her.

A man who beat up then raped his victim after she refused to perform sex acts in exchange for drink and drugs was jailed for 16 years.

Osman Suleyman, 31, of no fixed address was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on June 26 to 16 years in prison and an extended five years on licence.

On Tuesday, March 17, at the same court, Suleyman had been unanimously found guilty of two counts of rape, assault (ABH), threats to kill and false imprisonment.

A rapist in a ski mask who threatened to kill his victim, forced her to clean herself in a dirty canal and then said “hurry up – I don’t have all day” was jailed for 15 years and two months.

Desmond Atumkeze, 23, asked ‘Do you have a boyfriend?’ as he assaulted his 30-year-old victim, who had been on her way home, by the canal in Thamesmead.

He told her he had a gun, and that he would kill her if she did not comply with his demands. Warning her against contacting the police, he said: “I’m local, I know your face, I know where you live.”

The victim had got off a bus and had been taking a shortcut across a basketball court in Gallions Park when Atumkeze threatened her and marched her towards a concrete clearing near a canal at around 8.45pm on November 8, 2019.

A man who attempted to rape a woman and invented a twin to blame – whose name he could not remember – was convicted after leaving a distinctive baseball cap at the scene.

Khaled Argoub, 20, of Garratt Terrace, Tooting, stalked his victim before dragging her to a park where he choked and attacked her.

She thought she was going to choke to death in the attack but he still put his hand over her mouth in a bid to stop her shouting for help.

The distinctive cap left at the scene, his DNA found under the victim’s fingernail and CCTV tracking helped to identify Argoub.

At Kingston Crown Court last Friday, Argoub was found guilty of two counts of attempted rape, three counts of sexual assault, one count of sexual assault by penetration, and attempting to choke with intent.

A man was jailed for more than 20 years after being convicted of multiple counts of rape of a single victim in one prolonged attack.

Alan Mackey, 37, of London Road, Croydon was convicted following a trial at Kingston Crown Court.

He was sentenced to 23 years in prison at the same court on Thursday, January 30.

Mackey was previously found guilty of six counts of rape, two counts of fraud, one count of blackmail, one count of ABH and one count of theft.

The court heard that the victim was reported missing by her family on Friday, June 7 last year and, following police enquiries, was found the following day at a hotel in Richmond, west London.

She told police she had endured a prolonged assault at Mackey’s hands, as she was held against her will. During this time, she was raped and subjected to a physical assault, which left her with facial injuries.

A man on a work trip from the south coast raped one woman and carried out a second sex attack an hour later.

Wilfred Marodza left both women fearing for their lives after grabbing them in separate incidents in the early hours of July 20 last year, the first in Great Dover Street, Borough.

She was raped in a nearby wooded area off Brockham Street.

The second was attacked only a few hundred yards away in Borough High Street.

Marodza was arrested that same day at his home address in Kingston Road, Eastbourne.

He admitted multiple offences committed in quick succession against two women and was jailed at Inner London Crown Court on Thursday, January 16, for a total of 14 years.