A Syrian refugee who raped and sexually assaulted a young woman as she tried to get home from a night out has been sentenced to six years behind bars. Mohammed Abdullah, 19, initially offered the young woman a ride home on the back of a bike he had rented before launching an attack on the victim. The young woman, also 19 at the time of the attack, had been on a night out in Bournemouth, Dorset, with a friend before the two headed their separate ways during the early hours of July 6, 2025.When she realised her phone had gone flat and had no way of calling a taxi, the woman decided to walk along the promenade, where she encountered Abdullah and his friends.She asked the group to look at maps on one of their mobile phones to check where she was going. It was then one of the group said Abdullah, of West Drayton in Middlesex, would give her a ride home on a bike. While cycling, Abdullah stopped at a portable toilet adjacent to the East Cliff Zig-Zag, where he dragged his drunken victim inside, locked the door and raped her. Afterwards, he cycled back on the e-bike towards his friends, leaving his victim distraught and alone in the public toilet. Syrian refugee Mohammed Abdullah has been jailed for six years after raping and sexually assaulting a young woman as she tried to get home from a night out in BournemouthThe woman, who is now aged 20, managed to flag down a stranger and used his phone to call her mum and told her 'I've been raped.' Her mother then called the police.Abdullah - who came to Britain in 2023 under a family reunion scheme and was granted permanent leave to remain - denied raping the woman and claimed they had consensual sex. But on May 15, the Syrian national was found guilty of rape and sexual assault by penetration by a jury at Bournemouth Crown Court. He was remanded in custody until sentencing. On Friday, August 21, Abdullah was handed a six year and nine month jail term, and will also be placed on the sex offenders register for life. In jailing him, Judge Robert Pawson told Abdullah he was a 'sexual predator' who 'knew precisely what he was going to do' when he saw his victim in a 'vulnerable' state. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court during the trial she whimpered like a 'puppy dog' and was crying during the attack.She said: 'I told myself something is going to happen here.'I remember being pinned. I tried to fight a little bit. I couldn't really do anything, I was in shock. I was whimpering, like a puppy dog. The 19-year-old woman had been walking home alone along Bournemouth promenade after a night out when she encountered Mohammed Abdullah (pictured) and a group of friendsAbdullah - who came to Britain in 2023 under a family reunion scheme and was granted permanent leave to remain - denied raping the woman and claimed they had consensual sex 'He said 'you like', obviously I said no but he wasn't listening.'When I realised I wasn't going to be able to go anywhere I just gave up. I was just hoping it was going to be over.'People walked past, I heard people, I tried to say something but nobody paid any attention.'I thought just get through this and then you can get out of here and get help.'The victim added she was vulnerable because she was drunk at the time. She said: 'I feel if I had been sober it wouldn't have happened. I would have been able to protect myself more, push him off me more.'During sentencing, she broke down in tears while reading her harrowing victim impact statement. Since the attack, the woman said she has suffered 'panic attacks' and has a recurring nightmare where she ends up trapped in the portaloo. The woman told a court she whimpered like a 'puppy dog' and was crying during the attack, which occured on Bournemouth seafront after a night outHer ordeal has left her afraid to go out alone and 'petrified of all men'.She said she has also been diagnosed with PTSD and has contemplated suicide.She said: 'Before this, the beach was always my favourite place to go.'Now, when I go there my chest feels tight and I can't breathe.'I have flashbacks to that night and I can feel him breathing on me, putting his hands up my skirt and I can smell him.'I remember the overwhelming feeling of that man forcing himself on me, and it makes me feel physically sick.'You see things on TV but you never think it will happen to you.'I'm now petrified of all men and scared to go out at night.'I have panic attacks and repetitive dreams where I'm walking down the beach and then I meet him and I always wake up as I enter the portaloo and the door shuts behind me.'I have been diagnosed with PTSD and thought about killing myself.'Richard Tutt, defending, said that Abdullah was a young man of previous good character who had been studying at West Thames College and worked as a trainee barber in Hounslow.He said his client would find custody 'particularly difficult' due to his limited English and his 'difficult and deprived' background.Mr Tutt said: 'This is an extremely sad case which will inevitably have a very significant detrimental effect on the lives of two young people.'Judge Pawson, sentencing, said: 'She believed until you raped her that night that she was safe in her home town walking alone at night.'But sadly that night she was at risk of an unscrupulous person and a sexual predator who took advantage of her.'The impact of your behaviour is that your victim is unwilling to return to her favourite place, the beach.'She has flashbacks, smells trigger her, she doesn't go out, she's fearful, she's petrified of men.'She was vulnerable, her panic attacks have come back, she has PTSD and she has suffered from suicidal ideation.'The one thing you might have done if you had a showed a shrewd of decency was to plead guilty but you put your victim through the ordeal of a trial.'He said that while Abdullah maintained his innocence, he found his evidence during the trial to be 'nonsense' and 'poppycock', as well as demeaning to the victim.Detective Inspector Shaun Inkpen, of Dorset Police's Major Crime Investigation Team (MCIT), described the case as a 'challenging investigation'.He said: 'I would like to acknowledge the bravery of the young woman in coming forward and reporting such a horrific and terrifying sexual attack. 'Abdullah was identified as the offender due to extensive enquiries carried out by MCIT detectives and police staff colleagues.'Samantha Wright, Senior Crown Prosecutor, of the Crown Prosecution Service, added: 'Mohammed Abdullah exploited a young woman who was vulnerable and simply trying to get home safely.'Having gained her trust by offering her a lift, he subjected her to a terrifying sexual attack.'The victim's bravery in reporting what happened and supporting this prosecution has ensured a dangerous offender has been held accountable for his actions.'Violence against women and girls has no place in our communities. The CPS will continue to work tirelessly to bring perpetrators of these abhorrent offences to justice.'The attack comes following a string of attacks against young women separated from their friends along the south coast. In July, three failed asylum seekers who gang-raped an unconscious woman on Brighton beach were each handed extended terms of up to 27 years at Hove Crown Court for their 'predatory, callous and contemptuous' behaviour. Al-Danasurt, pictured seated, alongside co-defendants Ahmadi (centre) and Alshafe – all three men entered the country illegally Ahmadi leaving court in handcuffs following his sentencing hearing Egyptian Karin Al-Danasurt, who was found guilty of gang-rape, has a previous conviction for murder Ibrahim Alshafe from Egypt was convicted alongside his two co-defendantsEgyptians Karin Al-Danasurt and Ibrahim Alshafe, and Iranian national Abdulla Ahmad were convicted of multiple counts of rape in April following a five-week trial.The victim, praised by the judge for her 'tremendous bravery', was having a night out with friends when the trio lured her to a secluded part of Brighton beach.Approaching her in the street at around 5.45am on October 4 last year, two of the men engaged her in conversation, and just four minutes later they could be seen on CCTV camera walking her towards a ramp down to the beach. They then subjected her to a brutal attack in which they treated the defenceless victim like 'meat'.The trio then went back to one of their asylum hotels and had a barbecue. Al-Danasurt, 21, who filmed the rapes but did not physically assault the victim, was found guilty of four rapes, and handed a prison sentence of 18 years and six months.All three were handed an additional six-year extended licence period following their eventual release from jail. They will be available for release after serving two-thirds of their prison sentences. They have had their asylum claims turned down and are expected to be deported, although the judge said this was now a matter for the Home Office.Giving evidence during the trial, the woman said she was 'begging them to stop' as she drifted in and out of consciousness, but they did not.She told jurors: 'Every time I close my eyes I can see them laughing at me. Every night it bothers me.'They thought it was funny. It wasn't consensual at all. They have literally ruined my whole life.'I didn't say they could do that. My skin crawls because of what they did to me.'They're evil and they've ruined my life.'She described herself as 'paralytic drunk', and said she had no recollection of how she ended up on Brighton beach.Following the conviction, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said: 'There are people who are taking our country for a ride, are coming here trying to claim asylum, which is for genuine refugees, when really they come here to do harm to others.'Former Border Security and Asylum Minister, Alex Norris, said: 'This case is nothing short of gut-wrenching.'My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim who has suffered the most unimaginable harm yet shown such tremendous courage in speaking out against these evil predators.'They have rightly faced the full force of the law.'I want to be absolutely clear – there is no place for foreign criminals in the UK. Sex offenders will be denied refugee protections, and we will do everything in our power to get them out of the country.'