A church-going “pillar of the community” carried out a terrifying hour-long rape on a woman as her young daughter slept in the next room. Nottingham Crown Court heard how the victim managed to record the savage sex attack university graduate Timilehin Olatunji was subjecting her to at a house in Nottingham.
On it she is heard screaming in pain and begging for him to stop, telling him the evidence of what was happening would be on her phone. And when she did, the 35-year-old simply replied: “Go ahead, record it”.
Jailing the defendant for 10 years, Judge Michael Auty KC said: “You were, for many years, a pillar of the community, a church-goer who helped others. But on September 29, last year, you raped a woman in the most brutal, sadistic and cruel way imaginable.
“She screamed out not just once but repeatedly and this went on for more than an hour. She even told you she was going to record what you were doing to her but you did not stop.
“She will remember what you did to her for a very long time. The despicable and vile way you chose to behave on that night is beyond rational.
“You told her she was fortunate because had her daughter not been in the house what you would have done to her would have been much worse. I can’t imagine what that would have been.
“She was able to take the recording to the police and give them the evidence they needed. She may never recover from what you chose to do to her that evening.” Dawn Pritchard, prosecuting, said the rape took place in the early hours on September 29, 2024.
She said Olatunji, of Nuthall, raped her in a bedroom and then took her downstairs to a living room where he carried out a second and then third one.
The prosecutor said: “She was screaming for him to get off her. He managed to record what he was doing, the recording goes on for some 56 minutes. It is a harrowing listen as she screams and cries for him to stop.
“As he carried on she told him she was recording it and he said ‘go ahead, record it’. She eventually told him to get it over with because she could not breathe and he said ‘are you begging?’”
Miss Pritchard said the victim managed to go to a police station with the recording and Olatunji, of Walbrook Close and who cried throughout the hour-long hearing, was arrested. He pleaded guilty to three counts of rape.
Gareth Gimson, mitigating, said his client had admitted his offending at an early stage, meaning the victim was spared having to come to court and relieve the rapes giving evidence at trial.
He said the defendant had arrived in the UK in 2019 from Nigeria and his conviction meant he would automatically be deported two-thirds of the way through the sentence. TAs well as the custodial sentence, the judge ordered Olatunji to sign on the sex offender register for life.