Overview
- Judge Simon Mills at Caernarfon Crown Court on Thursday gave Gift Oladele an extended 25-year sentence, with 17 years in prison and the rest on licence, and imposed indefinite protection orders.
- Prosecutors said he dragged a 19-year-old into woodland, threatened to record the assault, and told her it would teach her not to trust strangers, leaving her needing medical care and suffering severe anxiety.
- An extended sentence keeps an offender under supervision after release, so probation can recall them to prison if they pose a risk.
- In January 2023 a tribunal overturned a Home Office deportation order under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, allowing Oladele to remain in the UK.
- The Home Office called the case horrific and said planned immigration reforms aim to make it easier to remove foreign national offenders.