Rapist who used flatshare app lure jailed for 12 years

A RAPIST who strangled and threatened to kill an 18-year-old woman hours after meeting her on a flatmate-finder app has been jailed for 12 years.

- BY MATTHEW COOPER

Mirza Begg showed his victim a cache of weapons including knives, a sword and bullets, before raping and sexually assaulting her at his home last year.

Jurors had convicted the 34-year-old, of Small Heath, Birmingham, of rape in September, after hearing how he lured the teenager to his flat with the promise of allowing her to live there.