DNA led police to 2002 sex attacker

A former taxi firm owner who evaded capture after raping a young woman has been jailed for nine years after a routine DNA check led to his downfall.

Nasar Mohammed, aged 27, of Barn Close, Lye, Stourbridge, was today be-ginning a prison term more than seven years after his victim was subjected to a terrifying ordeal in a caravan.

He had denied rape, but the jury returned a unanimous verdict after deliberating for 40 minutes at the end of a three-day trial at Wol-verhampton Crown Court.

Detectives found a DNA sample on the victim after she was gang-raped in Holly Hall, Dudley, in 2002, but there was no match on the national database.

But when Mohammed was picked up by police for a minor matter, for which he was not charged, his DNA was taken, the court heard.

When the sample was checked it revealed he had played a part in the sex attack. Five other men have already been sent to prison.

Mrs Justice Dobbs told Mohammed he had forced the victim of the sex attack to relive her ordeal and had shown no remorse.

It was accepted that Mohammed had not been a party to the gang-rape.

"But you can have been in no doubt once you arrived at this caravan that she was not consenting, that she had been falsely imprisoned and that she had suffered by being sexually assaulted."

The judge added: "You escaped the long arm of the law for many years."

Mohammed, who was the last man to arrive at the caravan, told the jury that sex was consensual.