A girl has described how she awoke in her mattress to discover a burglar on high of her along with his hand on her throat and kissing her.
he lady instructed the Central Legal Court docket she believed she was going die as Ibrahim Elghynaoui (28) then strangled her throughout a battle on her bed room flooring.
She fought again by pushing her thumbs into his eyes, kneeing him within the groin and biting him on the hand.
As she acquired as much as to run for her bed room door she mentioned Elghynaoui sexually assaulted her.
She ran from the room and Elghynaoui escaped again out the bottom flooring window in her room. Elghynaoui admitted to gardaí that he was the burglar however denied sexually assaulting the girl.
Elghynaoui. of no mounted abode, had pleaded not responsible to aggravated sexual assault of the girl and housebreaking at her dwelling in Dublin metropolis on July 17, 2019. He was convicted by a jury of each counts following a trial final December.
Elghynaoui pleaded responsible to the housebreaking of one other man’s close by condo earlier the identical evening and tried housebreaking of one other dwelling on July 12, 2019.
Moroccan nationwide Elghynaoui, who was homeless on the time of those offences, has 33 earlier convictions throughout three jurisdictions.
His 22 earlier convictions in Eire embrace housebreaking, possession of a knife and failing to look in court docket. He has been in custody since July 18, 2019.
Mr Justice Paul McDermott adjourned sentencing till March 1, 2021, to permit a psychiatric report be accomplished and Elghynaoui’s standing within the EU to be established.
The court docket may even hear a plea in mitigation on Elghynaoui’s behalf on that date.
In her sufferer impression assertion, the girl instructed the court docket that she lives in a state of “hyper-vigilance” and has a continuing worry it would occur achieve.
Describing the impact of being attacked within the privateness of her personal bed room, she mentioned: “To at the present time I don’t really feel protected. Nowhere feels protected.
“I’m preventing laborious to heal from the ordeal. I don’t wish to look again in anger or remorse however know my life, or my life earlier than the crime is gone, and I’m nonetheless grieving for that life.
“This crime which most likely solely lasted a couple of minutes has left an irreparable mark on my life and lifetime of my household,” she instructed Justice McDermott.
She mentioned after the crime, the trial course of was the second worst expertise of her life. She described how she had been “at nighttime” for 18 months not understanding if she must face her attacker in court docket.
“I used to be scared of seeing him and placing a face to the nightmares,” she mentioned.
She mentioned speaking about her physique and intimate particulars in the course of the trial in a room filled with strangers had been very traumatic and an expertise she was nonetheless recovering from.
Detective Sergeant Aine Grogan instructed Michael Delaney SC, prosecuting, {that a} man awoke from sleep to seek out an intruder in his condo shortly after 3am on July 17, 2019. The intruder, Elghynaoui, left when challenged.
Gardai had been alerted and it was found a Apple Mac laptop computer had been taken.
The court docket heard Elghynaoui then made his method to the girl’s floor flooring condo, which she shared with two buddies, every having separate bedrooms.
She had left her bed room window barely ajar however had believed it was locked in place. The trial heard it was doable to achieve entry by way of the window.
In the course of the trial the girl described how she awoke in her mattress to the feeling of somebody on high of her kissing her face.
She screamed, struggled and succeeded in leaping from the mattress however Elghynaoui threw her to the ground and put his arms on her throat extra forcefully.
The lady mentioned she believed she was going to die and fought again by making an attempt to get her thumbs into his eyes, kneeing him within the groin.
When he put his hand over her mouth to silence her, she bit down. She drew blood and bit off pores and skin which she spat out.
Elghynaoui acquired off her and she or he ready to run for the bed room door. As she did Elghynaoui sexually assaulted her.
She managed to push him away and ran out the door. Her final view of him was as he ran in the other way to the window. He escaped onto the road.
The lady raised the alarm together with her flatmates they usually hid in a courtyard within the condo advanced. They alerted gardaí and hailed a taxi utilizing a cell app.
The taxi got here a couple of minutes later and gardaí, who had been investigating the sooner housebreaking, arrived on the identical time. Whereas en-route to the condo the gardai had met Elghynaoui who gave his identify, date of start and moved on.
Elghynaoui was interviewed by gardaí and admitted stealing objects from the girl’s dwelling however denied sexual assaulting her.
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