Tahir Nazir, 40, visited cities including Swansea and Cardiff looking for female students to target before attacking them inside their student digs
Tahir Nazir, 40, obtained a fake university ID card and trawled the internet looking for student nights all across the country so he could target vulnerable young women.
The Pakistan-born divorcee hired a car and embarked on a 7,000-mile tour of university towns including Cardiff , Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Oxford and Bristol.
Fuelled by drink, cocaine and viagra, he followed and then attacked his terrified victims inside their student digs. He even got hold of a fake student ID card.
Manchester Crown Court heard how examination of Nazir’s mobile phone found he had conducted internet searches for ‘high school girls’ and freshers’ week’, particularly around Swansea and Cardiff where he carried out other attacks.
Smashed his way through the window
In the early hours of September 22 a visitor to a shared house in the Cathays area of Cardiff awoke to find Nazir “on top” of her “very drunk” friend.
Nazir, who had smashed his way in through the bathroom window, left the scene butreturned later to proposition them both before other housemates told him to go .
But Nazir’s crimes began to unravel when he was caught sneaking into a student house in Fallowfield, Manchester, at 4.40am on November 6 last year.
After returning to their digs after a night out, several female undergraduates locked their bedroom doors but heard someone systematically going through the house, trying the door handles.
Nazir, from Glasgow, who started but failed to complete a series of university courses in business and property management, had got into the house through an unlocked door. The girls started to message each other through Facebook and dialled 999.
Police arrested him near the back garden, finding he had cocaine and an empty packet of viagra, the Manchester Evening News reports.
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He fled but tried other doors on his way
Analysis of DNA linked him to a sex attack five days earlier at a block of flats in Hulme, where a young woman who had returned from a Halloween night out woke up to find cocaine-fuelled Nazir “naked from the waist down” licking her neck and thrusting himself against her.
He fled when she challenged him but not before trying other bedroom doors on his way out.
The police investigation also found Nazir, who frequently paid for sex with prostitutes, conducted surveillance on student halls of residence and student digs in Rusholme, taking 38 images of the buildings.
He had denied the crimes but was convicted following a trial of trespass with intent to commit an offence, sexual assault, attempted rape, and three charges of trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence.
Nazir showed no emotion as he was jailed for a minumum 12 years at Manchester Crown Court.
'Driven by rampant sexual desire'
Putting him on the sex offenders’ register for life, Judge Martin Steiger QC said: “You’re a man driven by rampant sexual desire.”
The judge added: “His campaign which lasted three months was directed against students and involved reconnoitering places where they lived and socialised at university towns throughout England and Wales. His campaign involved taking detailed photos of premises where students lived, in particular entrances and access rooms. And finally it involved him posing as a student for which purpose he had obtained a highly convincing fake student union ID card.”
Shocking CCTV footage shows Nazir prowling corridors, trying doors in a bid to find victims. Other images show him tailgating a student to get into a block of flats.
He preyed on “drunken students hoping no doubt that they would not remember or would not complain about his conduct”.
Nazir denied all the allegations in his trial, saying he had been invited back by female students in Cardiff and Hulme, and that he was looking for a drug dealer who had ripped him off in Fallowfield.
His barrister Richard Littler told the court his client had no previous convictions, although he had been arrested in 2002 for an alleged sexual assault on a student in Glasgow.
'Accepts some responsibility'
“I don’t intent to mitigate the serious facts of this case. It would be impossible to do so,” said Mr Littler, although he stressed that his client, since his conviction, “accepts some responsibility for his actions”.
Nazir wrote a letter to the judge in which he “apologised to the victims and acknowledged the seriousness of his crimes”, said Mr Littler.
Speaking of Nazir’s family, the barrister continued: “They are a respectable family and the whole prosecution and trial has had a real affect on the wider family, not just him. It’s brought great shane upon them.”
Following the case, Detective Constable Matt Gregory said: “Not only did Tahir Nazir commit these horrendous offences against his victims but he did it in one of the most intrusive ways possible by attacking them in their own home.
“Nobody should have to worry about being attacked when they are in the sanctity of their own home, they should feel safe and comfortable.
“I hope the sentence passed today will give his victims some sort of comfort knowing that Nazir is off the streets and will spend the next 12 years in prison where he won’t be able to hurt anybody like this.
“I would like to pay tribute to them for the courage they have shown in assisting these investigations; today’s result belongs to them.”
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