Rapist targeted teen with mental disorder - The Rugby Observer

Rapist targeted teen with mental disorder

Rugby Editorial 27th Mar, 2018   0

A MAN who raped a vulnerable young woman in Rugby after giving her an ecstasy tablet is facing a lengthy prison sentence.

Andrzej Guzdraj gave her the drug and then led her to a ‘sordid shelter’ in a derelict building at the edge of a car park where he raped her.

The 32-year-old of Biart Place, Rugby, pleaded not guilty to raping the teenager and supplying her with ecstasy – but a jury at Warwick Crown Court convicted him of both charges.

Adjourning for enquiries to be made into the on-going effects on his victim, Judge Sally Hanco told Gurdraj he could expect a sentence “in double figures”.




Prosecutor Peter Cooper told the jury the victim, who was 18 at the time of the incident in 2016, suffered from a mental disorder which meant she had an academic age of about 12.

Because of her condition, which was obvious to anyone who met her, she was naive ‘and inclined to answer questions with an instant yes, without really understanding what she’s expected to do.’


The jury heard Guzdraj had twice propositioned her asking if she wanted sex, and she told the court she said no, but he persisted and told her to follow him.

He led her away across a car park to the scruffy shelter, where he gave her a tablet which she said ‘tasted like medicine.’

He then had sex with her and afterwards made her promise not to tell anyone.

After they left, the girl made her way to a coffee bar in the town centre and asked a member of staff to call a Town Ranger.

“She said she had had sex with a man in his house, and he asked if it had been against her will, and she said yes.”

The police and an ambulance were then called.

Guzdraj claimed in court that he had not realised the girl had any form of learning disability, and said she had gone with him willingly to the shelter where she had been willing to have sex.

Adjourning the case after the guilty verdicts, Judge Hancox told Guzdraj: “What took place was the most appalling set of circumstances. You targeted someone who, even to the untrained eye, was a young woman with certain cognitive difficulties.

“You took her to a grubby, unpleasant building on the edge of a car park, and you raped her.

“You will receive a sentence you must be in no doubt will run to many years of imprisonment.”

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