Libyan soldiers raped drunk man in park 'like hunting dogs who had seen wounded animal'


Moktar Ali Saad Mahmoud, 33, and Ibrahim Abugtila, 23, took turns to brutally assault their drunken victim in a Cambridge park






Jailed: Moktar Ali Saad Mahmoud (top) and Ibrahim Abugtila were spotted on CCTV shortly before the horrific attack

Two Libyan soldiers raped a drunk man in a park after preying on him 'like hunting dogs who had seen a wounded animal'.
Moktar Ali Saad Mahmoud, 33, and Ibrahim Abugtila, 23, took turns to brutally assault their drunken victim in a Cambridge park after leaving their barracks without permission.
They were among 300 Libyan trainees stationed at Bassingbourn, near Cambridge, when they struck last October.
They denied rape and aiding and abetting rape but were each jailed for 12 years after being found guilty at Cambridge Crown Court after a trial.
It can now be reported that three other Libyan soldiers from the same base have also been jailed for sexually attacking four women in the same night in Cambridge.
They went on a drunken rampage in the university city after stealing bikes and cycling the 10 miles from Bassingbourn.




Fuelled by alcohol, they roamed the streets looking for victims and pounced four times in the space of an hour on October 26 last year.
They groped the terrified women, attempted to put their hands up their skirts and exposed themselves.
Ibrahim El Maarfi, 21, Mohammed Abdalsalam, 27, and Khaled El Azibi, 19, all admitted assault.
El Maarfi also admitted indecent exposure and Abdalsalam admitted threatening behaviour towards a police officer.


Animal: Ibrahim Abugtila took turns to brutally assault his victim
El Azibi was jailed for 12 months and the other two were both locked up for 10 months and all three will all be deported after their sentences from Norwich Crown Court.
The male rape victim was a man in his 20s who had been at a wedding and he described his attackers as "horrendous" and "not human".
Prosecutor John Farmer said the two were seen on CCTV leading him to Christ's Pieces park.
He said: "They behaved like two hunting dogs who had seen a wounded animal.





Evidence: Moktar Ali Saad Mahmoud was spotted on CCTV shortly before the horrific attack
"They effectively took him over and, initially not using too much force and later more forcefully, kept him going in the direction they wanted him to go."
In the park, the defendants took it in turns to rape the man while the other held him down.
Mahmoud and Abugtila will also be deported after serving their sentences.
More than 300 Libyan trainees arrived at Bassingbourn in June, but were sent back to Libya after the sex crimes surfaced.