Flint rapist Sultan Amari who went on the run midway through his trial has written to protest his innocence and said he plans to appeal.
The Syrian-born taxi driver who fled to Turkey sent his email message as it emerged that he was at the centre of international manhunt.
Writing to our sister paper The Chester Chronicle, Amari, 46, claimed that he feared he would be the victim of a racist jury.
He was found guilty in his absence of twice raping an incapacitated student at a property he owned on Sealand Road after picking her up in Chester last year.
The father-of-one, of Chester Road in Flint, boarded a plane to Turkey midway through his trial, but now he has revealed his intention to appeal his conviction.
Insisting he has not ‘run away’, he said: “I am more than happy to come at any time.
Human Rights
“All I am asking is please provide me with a fair trial with the same level of play as the prosecution as it is stated in Article 6 of the Human Rights Act.”
The five-page document includes a section entitled ‘Comments for Politicians’, in which he says he was ‘treated as a criminal from day one of the accusation’.
“All rape cases involve ethnic minority seems to achieve a conviction,” he writes.
“This make me wonder is the verdict pre-determined. In my case the evidence is strikingly in my favour, how come I was convicted.”
Amari’s six-day trial at Warrington Crown Court heard that his victim flagged his cab down and within eight minutes they were back at a house he owned on Sealand Road.
He continues to maintain that his victim, who was so drunk she could not remember much of the ordeal, had consensual sex.
And he claims in his email that all he needs is an opportunity to present ‘the truth’, backed up with ‘sound, proper and possibly scientific’ evidence.
He also states that he was unhappy with how his case was handled by his legal team both in the run-up to and during the trial.
“I have done nothing wrong to this girl or any other girl and I will never do anything to knowingly harm anyone as it is against my core beliefs and principles,” Amari adds.
“I always have been of good character and I always will try to be as best I can.”
International Manhunt
The email came as it emerged the court has alerted Interpol that he had gone on the run after discovering he had taken a flight to Istanbul last weekend.
The first they were alerted to his disappearance was when the court received an email from him saying he had no intention of returning.
It later emerged that neither police nor prosecutors had demanded he hand over his passport because they did not consider the Syrian-born taxi driver a flight risk.
A “red notice” has now been issued calling on law enforcement agencies around the world to arrest and return him to the UK.
Judge Tina Landale immediately demanded an investigation into his disappearance on conclusion of the trial.
The case has provoked the fury of Delyn MP David Hanson who is now demanding answers from the Department of Justice.
see-http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/fugitive-flint-rapist-claims-racist-11963473
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