PREDATOR JAILED FOR 'CAMPAIGN OF RAPE'

SICK BRUTE ‘WALKED CITY STREETS LOOKING FOR HIS NEXT VICTIMS’

- By AMY WALKER

A PREDATOR who attacked and robbed vulnerable victims in Manchester city centre has been jailed for life.

Mourad Malki, also known as Sid Ali Djelid, ‘lay in wait’ before raping one woman and two men over the course of five months around Manchester’s Canal Street. He also went on to rob a phone and bank cards from a third man after luring him away to a secluded area.

Sentencing the 39-year-old as a dangerous offender, Judge Tom Gilbart told him: “Undoubtedly this was a campaign of rape.

“I am quite satisfied that you went into the city centre for the purposes of finding victims. You were seen walking the streets, watching people go by as you waited to identify a person’s vulnerability that gave you the opportunity to attack them.

“All of the evidence suggests that you are a predator”

Manchester Crown Court heard that the first victim, a woman, had gone into the city centre for a few drinks in February last year. None of the complainants can be identified for legal reasons.

She had visited a number of bars on Canal Street, and by her own admission was ‘extremely drunk’

At some stage she ended up in a car but could not recall how and why, before she was dragged out and attacked.