The Offender Database reported that Alex Patel-Wills, the Barnet Rapist Sex Offender, a former University of Sussex student, has been incarcerated for raping or sexually assaulting five women, four of whom were fellow students.
Alex Patel-Wills, 26, of Grove Road, Barnet, was sentenced to 25 years at Lewes Crown Court on Friday, December 19.
Sussex Police initiated an investigation following a woman’s claim of being raped by Alex Patel-Wills at a residence in Brighton on 31 October 2021.
The victim received assistance from specialised authorities while Alex Patel-Wills was apprehended on suspicion of rape shortly thereafter.
Subsequent investigations over the ensuing weeks uncovered four additional victims throughout multiple years, from 2018 to 2021.
A woman in her late teens, known to Alex Patel-Wills, alleged being raped and sexually assaulted by him many times in Brighton between 2018 and 2019.
A woman in her late teens was raped by Alex Patel-Wills in a London property while in a vulnerable condition around the same period.
In 2020, two other women reported incidents of rape: in May, Alex Patel-Wills sexually assaulted a woman at a college property, and four months later, he raped another woman at his residence in Brighton.
He was then indicted on five counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, and two counts of assault by penetration, and was remanded in detention.
On Thursday, 16 October, at Lewes Crown Court, the jury convicted Alex Patel-Wills of offences against each victim, including four counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, and one count of sexual assault by penetration.
He was acquitted of one charge of rape and one charge of assault by penetration.
Alex Patel-Wills will spend a term of 19 years in custody (he will be paroled halfway through, as the Judge set no minimum prison time to serve), followed by an additional six years on extended license.
Sussex Police investigations have failed to yield his Nationality or what he was doing at the University.
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