A migrant who ripped off a 19-year-old woman’s jeans in the woods and told her to moan like she enjoyed it last year avoided previous deportation to “protect his right to a family life”, it has been reported. Nigerian national Gift Oladele, 24, was convicted last week of raping a teenager in woodland near Wrexham last September.
The predatory migrant, who said he ran a cleaning business, called himself “big Mike” because of his 6ft 4in height. He put a hand over his victim’s mouth, pushed her down a path into the woods, struck her six or seven times and raped her. However, North Wales Live disclosed this week that Oladele had been 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 issued a deportation order in 2023, but it has been revealed that Oladele successfully challenged that order, enabling him to go on to rape the North Wales teenager last year.
CCTV footage of Oladele attacking a woman on the morning of May 17, 2022 (Image: Handout)
During the 2022 case, Judge Conrad KC reportedly told him he had “inappropriate attitudes towards women with a sense of entitlement”. He said: “There is ample material here for me to find that you are a dangerous offender,” adding: “I regard you, having seen you give evidence, as a young man who is clever, devious and manipulative”.
The Home Office issued his deportation order on January 10, 2023. However, Oladele – who moved to the UK from Italy when he was 11 – submitted that it breached his human rights. The Home Office upheld its deportation decision. Oladele then lodged an appeal with the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal on June 24, 2023.
Court documents and the judgment from that hearing, obtained by North Wales Live, have revealed the tribunal sided with Oladele, determining that the Home Office’s refusal to withdraw the deportation order constituted a “breach of the Appellant’s protected rights”. The ruling hinged on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which safeguards the right to respect for private and family life.
According to the Borders Act, an individual faces automatic deportation when they satisfy the legal definition of a “foreign criminal” – meaning they are not a British citizen and have been found guilty in the UK of an offence resulting in a custodial sentence of 12 months or longer. The Home Office argued that the appellant was not socially and culturally integrated in the UK due to the commission of the index offence. They maintained he had insight into life in Nigeria because he had grown up in a Nigerian family.
The Tribunal Judge James A Simpson stated he found the “opposite to be the case” as Oladele had attended school and college in the UK. He added: “I find that he is socially and culturally integrated.”
Oladele had been jailed in December 2022 for two years for falsely imprisoning a woman in Manchester (Image: Men Media)
This allowed Oladele to go on to attack the 19-year-old woman as she made her way home following a night out in Wrexham, hauling her into woodland before subjecting her to the brutal assault. Oladele ordered her to “moan like you are enjoying it”. Oladele also told her he liked to be “dominant” and that she should “pretend this never happened”. The woman said Oladele told her she liked it: “As if justifying it in his head”.
The victim told police: ”It felt as if he had done it before. The way he did things and the way he handled me made it feel like it wasn’t the first time.”
Following last year’s attack, Oladele had made a Google search for ”Wrexham rape after club”.
Oladele is due to be sentenced for the rape next month.
