Sadistic brutally assaulted and repeatedly raped a woman after trapping her in her own bedroom.
Ionel-Alexandru Paicu, high on drink and drugs, attacked the woman on January 1 this year, prosecutor Catherine Picardo said.
He repeatedly slapped and backhanded her face, causing "lots of bruises," threatened her with a kitchen knife, forced her to strip naked, and "effectively" trapped her in the bedroom before raping her.
The victim's statement described her ongoing anxiety when leaving home and fear of encountering the defendant again.
The judge, Nirmal Shant KC, told Paicu: "You did everything you could that evening to humiliate and degrade her.
You have left her afraid of the future.
What you did that evening and night has left a profound effect on her.
The starting point is 12 years.
There were different kinds of rape, albeit in one incident.
It is, in my judgment, a case where sadistic conduct was involved." Paicu, listening via a Romanian interpreter, admitted on the day of trial to making threats with a bladed article, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment, three counts of rape, and one of penetrative sexual assault.
He was jailed for 15 years, placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely, and given a restraining order banning all contact with the victim.
Court Outcome
Conviction and Sentencing Details
Sentenced
Detected legal outcome
ult occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment, three counts of rape, and one of penetrative sexual assault. He was jailed for 15 years, placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely, and given a restraining order banning all...
Prison sentence
15 years
He was jailed for 15 years, placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely, and given a restraining order banning all contact with the victim
Sex Offenders Register
indefinitely
He was jailed for 15 years, placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely, and given a restraining order banning all contact with the victim
Court order
15 years
He was jailed for 15 years, placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely, and given a restraining order banning all contact with the victim
