Nigerian Night Club Bouncer Jailed For Raping Woman In Her Home.

Idreez Popoola
A nightclub bouncer who was twice spared from being deported from Britain back to Nigeria has been jailed for raping a woman in her own home - months after judges allowed him to stay in the country.
Idreez Popoola, 34, should have been deported in 2006 after his temporary UK visa expired but he was allowed to continue living and working in Britain. In December 2011 he was arrested and was told he would have to return to his native Nigeria but he successfully appealed the ruling. Judges granted the nightclub bouncer temporary leave to stay in January 2012 because he had a wife and child. Then, 11 months later on December 29 last year, he attacked and raped a woman in her own home.
Sentencing, Judge Lynn Tayton told him: 'It was a serious aggravating factor that the rape took place in the victim’s own home as this was an abuse of the trust placed in you by the victim and has undermined her feelings of safety in her own space.'
He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for life. Judge Tayton also told him he would be automatically deported back to Nigeria on his release from prison. Rapist Idreez Popoola sold mobile phone top-up cards in Nigeria before coming to Britain on a 12-month visa in 2005. He moved to Croydon, south London, where he trained to be bouncer and gained work with an agency which supplied a nightclub in Northampton. He was arrested in 2011 on suspicion of providing officers with a false name but no charges were brought. Speaking after the sentencing, local MP Michael Ells said: 'This is an example of the dysfunctional border control in the UK. 'Although there has been considerable improvement since this government took over, the previous regime was completely not fit for purpose. 'Here is another example of someone who has gone on to commit a serious and unforgivable act when they shouldn't have even been in the country at all. 'It is clear that the appeal process is far too complex and convoluted and something should be done.' Northampton borough councillor Iftikhar Ahmed Choudary added: 'My personal belief is that we should be a lot stronger on immigration. 'More needs to be done and people who don't belong here need to be sent back to their own country where they will not be a problem to us. 'Putting this vile man in our prisons is costing me and you money, we are the people paying taxes and things like this make me very angry.
'If we deport them, we don't have to pay for them - they shouldn't be our problem if they are not paying taxes and are living here illegally.  'We need to eject these sort of people so crimes such as these can no longer happen, the punishments need to be stricter than they are. 'If he didn't come and live in this country illegally in the first place, this crime would never have happened. 'I am sure that if people would have known he was here illegally he would not have had the help he needed to live here. 'He has ruined someone's life, and now we are paying for it out of our own pockets and it is disgusting.' This type of incident makes me mad, haba people like this are the ones that make people like Senator Ted Cruz say the rubbish he said earlier. My heart goes out to the victim.
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