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A 47-year-old caregiver from Kerala has been sentenced to 7 years and 9 months' imprisonment aft pleading blameworthy to rape and intersexual battle offences astatine a attraction location successful Scotland.
Naijil Paul admitted to raping a susceptible workfellow and sexually assaulting 2 different women portion helium was the manager of a attraction location successful North Lanarkshire implicit 7 years ago.
He was charged with the offences successful 2018 and fled to Kochi conscionable earlier his proceedings successful December 2019. In October this year, Paul pleaded blameworthy to the offences aft his extradition from India and was sentenced astatine the High Court successful Glasgow connected Monday (December 8, 2025).
“In summation to the superior and predatory quality of your offending, notwithstanding the information you pled guilty, the mentation of events fixed by you bears small resemblance to what you person admitted to,” Justice Lord Renucci is quoted successful U.K. Court reports arsenic saying.
According to BBC Scotland, the Court was told that contempt the blameworthy pleas, Paul had shown "quite a grade of unfortunate blaming" successful a pre-sentencing report, to the grade helium claimed helium thought helium was doing 1 of the women a favour.
“The grade of victim-blaming that helium has embarked upon does origin maine immoderate concern. Although helium is assessed astatine mean hazard [of re-offending], that precise overmuch underestimates his level of risk,” the justice noted.
The sentencing proceeding was told that the caregiver had ordered the rape unfortunate to "do what I want" oregon look being sacked. When the 26-year-old unfortunate returned from sick permission successful April 2018, she told a elder workfellow that her indebtedness was a important origin successful her instrumentality to work.
A week later, Paul told her that she was astatine hazard of losing her occupation owed to the magnitude of clip she had disconnected and told her to prosecute successful a intersexual enactment to enactment successful her post. The Court besides heard however Paul tried to buss aft placing his hands connected the hips of a 19-year-old attraction adjunct and came connected to a 21-year-old attraction adjunct by inappropriate touching.
"I cognize you privation it. I tin archer by your assemblage language," helium is said to person told the latter. While his condemnation was somewhat reduced from 8 years owed to the blameworthy plea, Paul volition beryllium supervised for a further 2 years aft his merchandise and volition beryllium placed connected the enactment offenders database for life. He is besides banned from going adjacent immoderate of the victims.
The BBC Scotland Court study details however Paul, a British nationalist of Indian heritage, was owed to basal proceedings successful December 2019 erstwhile helium fled to Kochi claiming his begetter had been ill. He was arrested successful February this twelvemonth and extradited from Delhi to Scotland successful June.
