Small boat migrant found guilty of raping woman in tent under bridge as she made her way home from night out

A small boat migrant has been found guilty today of raping a woman in a tent under a bridge in London after he threatened her via a translation app. Moustafa Elbohy, 32, used Google Translate to tell the woman he wanted to 'f*** her' before he dragged her into his tent in a homeless encampment, forced her to the ground and repeatedly raped her. The woman had been out drinking with work colleagues in central London when she was targeted by Elbohy, who is from Egypt, just after midnight on 20 September last year. Southwark Crown Court heard how the woman, who was a wife and mother, had stopped to chat to him and his friends because she lived near 'a lovely Middle Eastern community' and enjoyed listening to them speak in Arabic - though she didn't speak or understand the language. But Elbohy pulled her into his tent under Hungerford Bridge, which lies between Waterloo and Westminster, by the wrist and used a translation app to threaten her before raping her twice. Elbohy, aided by an Arabic interpreter, denied but was convicted on Friday of two counts of rape after a trial, and now faces years in jail. He had entered the country on a small boat just three months earlier on June 19 and was put up in a hotel, where he made an asylum claim that was refused. Wearing a green and white hoodie, Elbohy held his head in his hands as he was convicted by a jury after seven hours and 57 minutes of deliberation. Moustafa Elbohy (pictured), 32, was found guilty of rape at Southwark Crown Court on Friday Prosecutor Richard Milne said the horrific attack took place in a 'tarpaulin encampment' underneath Hungerford Bridge. Mr Milne said: '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.' The court heard how the woman had been drinking at Gordon's Wine Bar in Charing Cross with colleagues since around 7pm. She was making her way home alone when she encountered Elbohy near Embankment station, when he was having a 'heated discussion' with friends in Arabic. Mr Milne said: 'Her recollection is that she was definitely drunk - she's asked a lot [by police] about how much she'd had to drink, the best estimate she was twice the legal limit for driving or perhaps a bit more. 'She felt, as she described, "with it" enough to be able to get to the station at around 11.30pm. She recalls there were lots of people around her. 'She was interested in languages, she was particularly interested in the Arabic language. 'Her recollection is that she started speaking to a male... she did not feel threatened by him at this point. Elbohy (pictured, centre) dragged a woman into a tent in a homeless encampment in central London and raped her twice 'She accepts she started speaking to him [Elbohy], she didn’t feel threatened in any way by this man, the defendant,' he added. 'Her next recollection is that he grabbed her wrist and "kind of dragged me out of the station and away towards the river".' 'It was at this point that she began to feel scared and fearful, she was telling him she needed to get home to her husband and children.' 'Her recollection is that she was walked a short distance from the station to a place that she describes as dark and dingy.' By this stage, the court heard, she thought Elbohy might kill her.The prosecutor said: 'She recalls her head being forced back and him "shoving his penis into her mouth" which hurt her. 'At one point he took his phone out to use Google Translate to tell her that he wanted to f*** her.'She was so scared of what she thought might happen, particularly if she had screamed, that he might in fact hurt her, her decision was to "play nice".'Mr Milne continued: 'She described him as a very angry man and she was trying to play nice to calm his anger down - she felt he was an extremely volatile man.'She knew she was going to be raped and she just wanted to get it over and done with as quickly as possible. 'She put her mind in another place, she describes her recollection of being pushed to the ground and being vaginally raped on the ground, but she did not consent to have sex with him. 'She felt disgusted at what he had done. This was a drunken professional woman trying to get back to her husband and children.' The prosecutor added: 'She was led away like you would lead a small child away, this was a befuddled disoriented muddled lady and he had seen an opportunity.'She was raped by this man, this complete stranger - he targeted her because she was so drunk he could reasonably believe she was consenting, he had sex with her whether she liked it or not.'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.' The woman told police: 'I was really scared. He was a really volatile, angry man. It was dark and there was no one else around.'He put his penis in my mouth, grabbed my hair. It really hurt. He was really rough,' she said with her head in her hands during her interview. 'That's when he pushed me onto the floor and he raped me. I did not scream, I did not say no, but I did not want him there.'He shoved me down on the ground. I had bare legs under my skirt... he put his penis inside of me by force.' The woman said she felt 'violated, horrible and also I felt (I wanted him to) get it over with, he's got what he wanted, it's done. 'I felt fear and scaredness, I felt disgusting.'The woman contacted an actor friend who had just finished his opening night in a play.He arrived within 15 minutes and took her to Charing Cross Police station to report the attack, the court heard. Elbohy's DNA was found on the woman. Elbohy, whose address was formerly given as the Doubletree Hotel by Hilton Reading in Wokingham, Berkshire, denied two charges of rape, oral and vaginal.He claimed that the woman had consented to sex. Elbohy will be sentenced on 17 November.