MAN WHO RAPED TEENAGER AFTER WINNING DEPORTATION APPEAL ALLOWED TO STAY IN UK
Update 30/04/2026: A 24-year-old man who raped a young woman in Wrexham has been jailed.Gift Oladele, of the Manchester area and currently of no fixed abode, violently attacked the 19-year-old victim as she walked home following a night out with friends.
Oladele introduced himself to the victim and her friend in the city centre in the early hours of September 7 last year.
He insisted on walking her home, claiming he was heading in the same direction.
As they walked alone towards Mold Road, he raped her on an isolated footpath.
Following the attack, he warned her not to report the incident to police.
Oladele was arrested hours later and subsequently charged and remanded into custody following a thorough investigation.
He denied rape and sexual assault, claiming the victim had consented, but a jury found him guilty at Mold Crown Court in March.
At Caernarfon Crown Court on Thursday, 30 April, he was sentenced to a total of 25 years, including 17 years in prison, with an extended licence period of eight years.
He was also handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a restraining order to protect the victim for life.
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A migrant who raped a teenager was previously jailed for a "sexually motivated attack" but was not deported to "protect his right to a family life".
Nigerian national Gift Oladele, 24, was found guilty last week of raping a 19‑year‑old woman in woodland, near Wrexham last September.
This week North Wales Live revealed that Oladele was jailed in December 2022 for two years for falsely imprisoning a woman in Manchester who feared she would be raped in broad daylight.
The Home Office ordered his deportation in 2023 but Oladele successfully appealed that order, allowing him to go on to rape a North Wales teenager.
In September last year, he dragged a 19-year-old woman into woods as she walked home from a night out in Wrexham, before violently raping her.
After the ordeal he told her "this will teach you a lesson not to trust strangers”.
He was convicted last Friday and faces a lengthy prison term.
The Home Office described this as an "absolutely horrific case" and emphasized its stance on removing foreign offenders.
Oladele, born in Italy and arrived in the UK as a child, had been living illegally in the UK until February 2018 and obtained a residence card due to expire in 2024.
He was convicted of false imprisonment for a Manchester attack in December 2022.
His deportation was ordered under the UK Borders Act 2007, but he appealed on the basis of family and private life rights, succeeding under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
A tribunal heard he had grown up in the UK, attended school and college here, and was socially and culturally integrated.
Despite the seriousness of his crimes and a custodial sentence, the tribunal found the factors on his side were sufficiently compelling to outweigh public interest in deportation, ruling that continued deportation was not proportionate under Article 8 ECHR.
Oladele is awaited to be sentenced for rape next month.
