The United Kingdom Court of Appeal has affirmed the jailing of a Nigerian man for 20 years for raping a minor who is also his daughter., was sentenced in November 2022 to “a custodial term of 15 years imprisonment and an extended licence period of five years.”
The UK court heard in evidence and acknowledged that the victim, identified as Susan “also referred to being raped by her father on ‘one or two’ occasions after he had taken her back to live in Nigeria… the police in Nigeria were informed, but did nothing in response to the report.”Mr RK is a Nigerian with a UK passport, frequently shuttling the UK and Nigeria. He had his daughter, who the court referred to as Susan, in 2001 with his partner, who abandoned him and Susan at two years old.
Mr RK’s marriage in the UK broke down in September, which led his wife to leave the house with their child. Susan was left alone with him. “When she refused, he arranged for her kidnap, apparently to send her to a military school. It was only thanks to the efforts made by an uncle that she could escape,” the court said.
According to the court document, the case could only be prosecuted once Susan decided she wanted to. She eventually decided to in July 2018. By August of the same year, she gave an interview narrating her experience with Mr RK, her father. Susan also described in detail an occasion when she was around 12 or 13 years old when her father raped her in the family home. She said that it happened “a few times” and at another point “twice” but gave no specific details about the other occasions,” the court papers said about her testimony of being raped by her father in Nigeria.
The trial judge gave his reason for admitting the case from Nigeria as evidence and described the decision not to charge Mr RK with offences reflecting the allegations of what he did in Nigeria as “seriously flawed”.
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