Illegal migrant faces deportation after decade of city centre sex attacks

An illegal migrant who subjected women to a sickening series of city centre sex attacks has been told he faces deportation after evading justice for over three years. Hosien Nedjad repeatedly sexually and physically assaulted women on nights out in Newcastle in offences spanning almost a decade. Yet despite already being on the sex offenders register, he subjected a young student who had become separated from her friends to a disgusting attack inside a bar.

The failed asylum seeker fled to Germany after the attack but was finally arrested and extradited back to the UK where he has now finally been jailed. Newcastle Crown Court heard the victim was on a night out with friends in Newcastle in 2019 when she visted the Soho Room bar. By the early hours of the morning, she was drunk and had become separated from her friends. Nedjad was in the same bar and took the opportunity to sexually assault the vulnerable young woman.

Philip Morley, prosecuting, said: "He took the opportunity to put his hand, initially, down the front of her jeans and started to grab at her.

"She asked him not to and tried to push his hands away. However at this point he grabbed her arms and pushed her forward onto the bar and pulled her jeans further down."

After finishing his sordid attack, Nedjad left the victim crying and distressed and she pulled her jeans back up. Forensic tests revealed Nedjad's DNA on her clothing.

In a victim impact statement, she said she finds it difficult to put her ordeal into words and she thinks about it every day. She has been left struggling with anxiety and has needed therapy and medication and struggles to sleep.

She added: "I relive the night so often but it still paralyses me."

She added that she has been left questioning whether she is safe and has been "plagued by flashbacks so severe they have been mistaken for seizures".

She added: "The outside world is terrifying and exhausting. I can't feel safe or trust anyone ever again."

The court heard Nedjad was convicted of common assault against four women in 2011 at a different bar in the city. He pulled one victim to the floor and punched her and when three of her friends intervened, he punched them too.

In 2013, he assaulted two women at a takeaway restaurant, punching both of them in the face. Then in 2014, he sexually assaulted a woman in Newcastle city centre, pushing her against railings, molesting her and trying to pull her pants down despite her screaming at him to stop. He was placed on the sex offenders register for seven years after that offence.

While he was being investigated for the attack in Soho Rooms, he sexually assaulted a woman in Popworld, in Newcastle, lifting up her dress while he had his trousers unbuttoned.

The attack left his victim "exposing her buttocks to people on the dancefloor".

But a district judge subsequently found that while Nedjad's "extremely unpleasant, nasty behaviour" crossed the custody threshold, he was instead sentenced to a community order after the probation service said "work could be undertaken around his attitude to females".

For the Soho Rooms offence, Nedjad, was found guilty of sexual assault after a trial in his absence and pleaded guilty to a Bail Act offence after going to Germany for three-and-a-half years, evading justice..

Sentencing the 42-year-old to four years in prison with an extended licence period of a further four years and ordering to sign the sex offenders register for life, Judge Edward Bindloss said he poses a significant risk to women and is a dangerous offender.

He told him: "You took advantage of the fact she was on her own and in drink. She described the last five years as being in the prison of her own mind. This has had a significant and profound effect upon her."

He added: "You have relevant previous convictions. In all of them, you targeted females at night. You touched them either physically or sexually, even though they said no."

The court heard Nedjad came to this country in 2007 and had worked as a chef and Amazon driver whilst attempting to claim asylum. But his application failed but he was not removed.

Judge Bindloss said it is likely he will be deported having been given a sentence of more than 12 months.