Alleged rapist used Google translation app to tell mother 'I want to f*** you' during attack near London homeless encampment, court hears

Alleged rapist used Google translation app to tell mother 'I want to f*** you' during attack near London homeless encampment, court hears

A stranger used Google Translate to tell a mother 'I want to f*** you' as he allegedly raped her near a London homeless encampment, a jury has heard.The woman was travelling home alone after an evening spent with a friend when she approached Moustafa Elbohy and a group of men speaking Arabic in Embankment station.The married woman spoke to them because she was interested in the language as 'there is a lovely Middle Eastern community' where she lived, though she did not speak or understand Arabic, the prosecution told Southwark Crown Court on Monday.Elbohy is accused of grabbing her wrist and taking her to a 'dark and dingy' place beneath a nearby bridge.The defendant denies two counts of raping her there in September last year.Prosecutor Richard Milne told jurors the woman was more than two times the drink-driving limit for alcohol when she left a central London wine bar to get the Thameslink home from Blackfriars Station.She recalled being 'definitely drunk' at the time, but 'with it' enough to use Google maps to make her journey, which involved walking through Embankment Underground station at about 11.30pm, he added.'As she walked through she became aware of a group of men speaking Arabic in the station itself, in Embankment station,' Mr Milne told the court. A mother was travelling home alone when she approached Moustafa Elbohy and a group of men speaking Arabic in Embankment station - before Elbohy then allegedly raped her'She was interested in languages, she was particularly interested in the Arabic language because, she explained it as follows: where she lives… there is a lovely Middle Eastern community, as she described it.'The alleged victim recalls speaking to one of the men in the group, and there is no dispute that was Elbohy because his DNA was later found on her, Mr Milne said.'She accepts she started speaking to him, she didn't feel threatened in any way by this man, the defendant,' he added.The prosecution continued: 'Her next recollection is he grabbed her wrist and she used expressions like: 'Kind of dragged me out of the station and away from the station towards the river.''It was at this point, members of the jury, that she began to feel scared and fearful and she was telling him she needed to get home to her husband and her children,' he added.The woman, who cannot be identified as she is an alleged victim of a sexual offence, recalls walking 'a short distance from the station to a place that she described as dark and dingy'.The location appeared to be under the Hungerford Bridge 'where there is some sort of encampment' with 'tarpaulin stretched over'.'Her recollection is that there was a wall which, she says, he dragged her over – there were tents that appeared to be tarpaulin-type tents, blue crinkly material, and there were homeless people living there, one of whom in particular looked very unwell lying on the ground.'She accepts that the details of this part are sketchy. She recalls that there was one tent that was bigger than the others and by this stage she was fearful for her life, she was scared.'After describing details of the woman's alleged assault, Mr Milne said: 'Her recollection is that at one point he took his phone out to use Google Translate to tell her that he wanted to f*** her.'Members of the jury, this may well be important: she was so scared of what she thought might happen, particularly things like if she had screamed, that he might in fact hurt her.'Her decision, members of the jury, this may well be important, was to play nice – that is her expression.'She described a very angry man and she was trying to play nice to calm his anger down. She described him as an extremely volatile man.'The prosecutor continued: 'She knew she was going to be raped and she just wanted to get it over and done with as quickly as possible.'The alleged victim dealt with it by putting 'her mind in another place' and has claimed she was 'pushed to the ground' during the alleged rape, the court heard.'He was being aggressive towards her, shouting towards her – she felt disgusted at what he had just done,' the prosecutor said.Mr Milne added: 'She tried to leave the area, she couldn't in fact get over the wall that he had pulled her over, and she had to ask him for help to get back over this low wall.'As she returned to the station she 'began to appreciate more vividly that what had just happened to her was that she had been raped', he told jurors. Elbohy is standing trial for raping the woman in September last year at Southwark Crown CourtAt 12.30am the woman phoned a friend who was in London. Minutes later he called her back and within 15 minutes he had found her.'She recalls him arriving and she was sat on the floor, she recalls saying to him she didn't want to go to the police because, as she described it members of the jury, she knew what the narrative would be.'She knew how rape victims were perceived in the media, and the narrative that she was worried about was that she had been drinking, that she had had too much to drink and was drunk, and that she hadn't screamed.'Her friend took her to Charing Cross Police Station and she made a report of rape at 1.15am.She told police that she did not consent to sex and that he was not wearing a condom.The trial continues.

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