A Quinton Rapist, Mustafa Hakim, who abducted a woman and sexually assaulted her in adjacent foliage, has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being deemed a ‘threat’ to society. Mustafa Hakim assaulted the victim on the Bourne Brook Walkway in Selly Oak shortly before 8:45 AM on July 28 of the previous year.
He covered the screaming woman’s mouth and subsequently choked her, threatening to murder her if she continued to make noise. Mustafa Hakim thereafter lifted the victim and transported her to a thicket, where he removed her trousers and assaulted her sexually.
After a trial earlier this year, the 30-year-old, Mustafa Hakim, from Rickyard Piece, Quinton, was convicted of kidnapping, rape, strangulation, assault by penetration, and theft. The case has been postponed for a mental evaluation; nonetheless, at Birmingham Crown Court today, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 13 years and four months in custody, except for the days spent on remand.
Mustafa Hakim inexplicably contended that it was ‘unjust’ that he had been condemned without his legal counsel, which he dismissed prior to his trial and chose to represent himself. He upheld his innocence and made unsettling remarks regarding the victim’s absence from the hearing. The court was informed that she has subsequently become a ‘recluse’ and relocated from Birmingham to the countryside.
Mustafa Hakim perpetrated the abhorrent assault one month following his release from incarceration for an affray and two days after being apprehended for peering over a cubicle in the women’s lavatory at Snow Hill train station. He had been traversing the Selly Oak vicinity on a bicycle before stealthily approaching the woman on the Bourne Brook Walkway and abducting her.
Judge Simon Drew KC stated, “It is evident that you had been seeking a victim for an extended period.” You selected a site devoid of CCTV surveillance. You ambushed her after lying in wait.
Mustafa Hakim seized the woman’s phone; nevertheless, she successfully contacted her boyfriend via her smartwatch, allowing him to overhear the incident. The victim successfully extricated themselves and fled to a nearby resident, who contacted the police.
Mustafa Hakim, who initially picked up a stick, fled the scene, changed his clothes and got on a bus to Acocks Green before being arrested. In a statement, the victim said she had been left ‘scared to be alone at any time, whether in the day or the night’, adding that Hakim had ‘completely taken away my independence’.
It took her weeks to tell her friends what had happened to her, and now she described herself as a ‘recluse’ who ‘doesn’t socialise at all’. She added, “What this man has done to me. I’m not the same person anymore. I’m not me.”
Mustafa Hakim has 23 convictions for 43 offences, including making threats with a knife, shoplifting and affray. Asked if he wanted to say anything, he replied: “My legal team ain’t turned up and that. I don’t think that’s fair.”
He then went on a rant about the victim, adding: “She knows she’s lying, you get me? If she was telling the truth and it meant that much to her, she would turn up every day. All I know is it wasn’t me, you get me?”
The trial heard that DNA taken from the victim was a ‘billion to one times more likely’ to have come from Mustafa Hakim than anyone else, while she had picked him out in an identification procedure. CCTV caught him loitering at the scene prior to the attack, and cell site analysis showed that he had the victim’s phone afterwards.
Judge Drew told him that he had ‘explained the risks’ of representing himself prior to trial and reminded the defendant ‘that’s what you chose to do’.
He acknowledged that Mustafa Hakim had been assessed as suffering from ‘delusional disorder’ and was likely ‘harbouring paranoid delusions’ at the time of the offence. Judge Drew concluded he was a ‘dangerous offender’ after taking into consideration the nature of the rape offence, the fact that he had still not taken responsibility, his behaviour in the train station cubicle two days prior, his criminal record and his mental health.
He said: “Going forward, I can see no obvious time in the future where you will not present a significant risk and substantial risk to members of the public.”
Mustafa Hakim began remonstrating again after the sentence was announced and asked to speak to his solicitors, to which Judge Drew replied: “You know you don’t have any.”
Mustafa Hakim will remain on the sex offender register for the rest of his life and in Britain.
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