BANBURY TEENAGER CONVICTED OF RAPING WOMAN IN PEOPLE'S PARK
A teenager has been found guilty of raping a woman in a park.Farisen Bashir Mohammed Suleiman, of Windrush, Banbury, had been on trial at Oxford Crown Court since Monday, September 15.
The 19-year-old was charged with one count of rape, which he denied, after an incident at People’s Park in Warwick Road, Banbury, on March 30.
On Monday, September 22, a jury found him guilty by a majority verdict of 10 to one.
He will be sentenced on October 24 after a pre-sentence report was ordered.
The jury previously heard the pair left the club together and went to the park where Suleiman raped the woman, before returning to the club together again.
Body worn video footage of a police officer who attended the club that night was shown to the court on the third day of the trial, on Wednesday, September 17, showing a highly distressed woman telling the officer she had been “raped”.
In the video the complainant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “A guy asked me to go for a walk.
He bought me a vape and that.
We went to a park and he said ‘oh, I’m going to f*** you’ and I was like ‘no, I want to go back to my friends’.” The court was also shown footage of Suleiman and the complainant dancing together in the club before they left together.
Suleiman was arrested by police on the same night of the alleged incident, shortly before 5am in Banbury town centre.
25/10/2025 Faris Suleiman, aged 19, of Windrush, Banbury, was sentenced to six years in prison, with a four-year extended licence, at Oxford Crown Court today (24/10).
A jury found Suleiman guilty by majority verdict of one count of rape of a female aged 16 years and over on 22 September following a six-day trial.
On Sunday 30 March this year, a woman in her late teens was in the town centre when she left a nightclub with Suleiman sometime between 3am and 3.20am.
However, Suleiman lured her to a secluded area of People’s Park, where he raped her.
The victim remained with Suleiman out of fear and they both re-entered the town centre, where she searched for her friends and told them what happened.
Police were informed shortly afterwards and officers stopped Suleiman as he matched the description of the offender that was given by the victim.
Suleiman was charged the following day, 31 March this year, and remanded in custody.
Investigating officer Detective Constable Gemma Kerby said: “Faris Sulieman preyed on a vulnerable victim on a night out with her friends and raped her, which has had an unimaginable impact on her.
