Sexual predator jailed for over 10 years

A sexual predator has been sentenced to 10 years and six months' imprisonment with an additional five years on extended licence for raping a woman in a hotel room after he drove her from London to Kent in a pre-planned assault.

Seyi Odeyemi met the woman after she went to an event in Camden in September 2023 and was trying to organise a taxi back to her home in East London. He offered to drive her home if she contributed £20 towards the cost of petrol and, as she thought she had previously met him at a friend’s party, she agreed.

She blacked out during the journey, having only vague memories of what happened to her after this. She woke up the next morning to find herself in a hotel in Gravesend, in pain and only then realising that she was in Kent. Odeyemi had pre-booked a room there, where he attacked her.

After waking the next morning, she facetimed a friend and, during the call, Odeyemi spoke to the friend, using offensive sexual terms when describing the woman.

James Burnham from the CPS said: “This was an utterly appalling attack on a woman who was incapable of standing when they arrived at the hotel, being carried into the hotel by Odeyemi, and was clearly unable to consent to sex in any way.

"The woman woke up in complete state of shock to find a man she did not know in the room with her, being abusive about her to her friend and telling her that sexual activity had taken place between them. None of us can imagine how terrifying that must have been for her.

“Not only did Odeyemi pre-book the hotel room, showing a level of planning before the attack, but he also falsely claimed that the woman had engaged in consensual sexual activity.

“This was a clear case of rape, with the woman unable to consent to any form of sexual activity and that would have been clear to the defendant.”