A sex attacker has been jailed for an assault on a woman as she walked home from a Cambridge pub.
Mohammed Talha, 30, who has been locked up for two-and-a-half years, threw his terrified victim to the ground in Parker’s Piece before groping her genitalia as he pinned her down. The woman was on her way home from the Regal pub, where Talha had been drinking, in the early hours of March 16 when he launched his attack, which only ended when her screams were answered by a passer-by. Talha, a Libyan national who was in Cambridge on a student visa to improve his English, is to be deported once he has served his sentence.
Edward Renvoize, prosecuting, said the attack happened at about 3.30am near to leisure centre and the victim was left with marks and abrasions to her arms and wrists. He added: “Her overwhelming fear was understandably that he was going to rape her.”
Caroline Allison, mitigating, said Talha, of Mill Road, pleaded guilty to sexual assault and has no previous convictions.
She added: “It’s something that Mr Talha feels ashamed of for several reasons, partly his religion - and he accepts his first mistake is that he was drinking in the first place - but that in drink his behaviour changed so much that he has found himself involved in criminal proceedings for such an awful offence.”
Judge Gareth Hawkesworth, sentencing at Cambridge Crown Court, said Talha “poses a significant threat to women”.
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