Predator assaulted lone woman in park

A DRUNK and lost young woman was lured to a secluded park and sexually assaulted by a predator posing as a Good Samaritan.

- By ROB KENNEDY

The victim, in her 20s, had been out in Wallsend when she became separated from her friends.

Newcastle Crown Court heard she had turned the wrong way when she left the last bar she had been in and was walking in the wrong direction when she encountered stranger Khaled Ibrahim and his friend coming the other way. A friendly conversation began, during which the woman discussed Islam with Ibrahim, the court heard.

Having been told where she wanted to go, Ibrahim said he would help her. The 46-year-old and his friend walked with the woman and Ibrahim told his friend he wanted to have sex with the victim and gave him some money to go to buy alcohol.

Ibrahim and the victim then walked to a park behind Wallsend Health Centre, where they sat on a bench and smoked a cigarette. Sentencing him, Judge Robert Adams said: “It was dark and this park was out of the way and there was nobody else present.