The victim was targeted by 37-year-old Warrington Rapist, Damola Olateju, in December 2020 after she and her friends returned to her apartment following a night out in Warrington town centre.
The severely inebriated victim begged “no” and “get off me” as the black carer recorded himself attempting to have sex with her.
If investigators hadn’t taken the damning video from Olateju’s cell phone, he might have escaped punishment for the horrific assault.
The following day, Liverpool Crown Court heard that the woman had discovered injuries and believed she had been raped, but she was afraid to come forward due to her fuzzy memory.
But she felt confident enough to notify the police after a man who had attended the party, identified in court as Mo, contacted her with concerns about what he had witnessed before the incident.
During a previous trial, the jurors were informed that Mo had been at the party with two friends and met the victim there. He greeted her and noticed she appeared to be very inebriated.
At one time, Mo watched the victim go upstairs with the Olateju, who later came back down alone. Fiona McNeill, prosecuting, told the court that when he remarked he “wasn’t happy” and the woman “needed to be looked after”, Olateju got menacing and even warned him he would “slit his throat”.
Mo was worried about the victim and contacted her on social media in the days that followed his and his pals’ departure from the flat.
The court heard the victim had some memories of chatting to a woman in a bathroom and being on a couch, then being in a bed.
The court heard the woman awoke in the morning alone in a bedroom, with her pants missing but her boots still on, and began searching for her phone and luggage. While looking for her phone, she noticed an empty condom wrapper in the room.
Ms McNeill claimed to have discovered her luggage and phone, but the battery was dead. She also discovered that the flat door was locked. The victim pulled Olateju awake and requested him to let her leave, but initially, he demanded to know where his phone was and wanted to examine her purse.
Ms McNeill stated: “The prosecution says we can only surmise the defendant was aware of what was on the phone and wanted to retain it.”
After the woman found his phone in the flat, she was allowed to leave and head home by pointing it out. The following night, she noticed she had bruises and injuries to her legs and buttocks, and began to suspect she had been raped.
A deleted video file was found on Olateju’s phone after he was located and taken into custody. “The video showed evidence of what was said in the bedroom,” stated Ms McNeill.
“No,” “get off me,” and “she’s cold” can be heard from [the victim]. The defendant is seen attempting to spread her legs. He can be heard telling her to “shut the f*** up” before slapping her twice in the face. She can be heard saying, “ow.”
Olateju told the court that he had had consensual sex with the woman and smacked her because he thought she liked rough sex. However, he had stopped trying to have sex with her and moved to a different bedroom the last time.
Olateju, a resident of Warrington’s Padgate Lane, was subsequently accused of two counts of rape and one of attempted rape, which he refuted. A jury found him guilty of the attempted rape charge, which was connected to the events in the film, but cleared him of the rapes during his subsequent trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
In summarising the victim’s account, Ms McNeill stated that she struggled to trust people and was left feeling anxious and forlorn.
Olateju, who appeared in court via video link from prison, hung his head after being sentenced to five years in prison and required to sign the sex offender register for life. The court heard that before he can request parole, he must serve at least two-thirds of that sentence in custody.
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