Boxer jailed for raping lesbian

An amateur boxer who raped a terrified lesbian at gunpoint is starting an 11-year jail term.

Chucks Obidaniel, 28, was told by Judge Martin Stephens at the Old Bailey on Monday: "She was a lesbian and found a sexual act with a man particularly abhorrent."

She was a lesbian and found a sexual act with a man particularly abhorrent

Judge Martin Stephens

Obidaniel, of Bethnal Green, east London, denied having sex with the woman, but later claimed she had consented to intimacy with him.

He was jailed for 11 years for rape, six years for false imprisonment and five years for using the imitation firearm. The sentences were concurrent.

Victim abducted

He was found guilty after the 32-year-old woman wept as she described the attack to the jury.

She was abducted from Kingsland Road, Dalston, east London, in September 1997, soon after leaving other gay friends in a pub, the court heard.

Obidaniel punched her on the nose and pulled her into his car. He drove to a dark street where he pulled a gun and threatened to shoot her.

The woman told the court: "I was terrified. I was in fear of my life.

"I pleaded with him. I closed my eyes. I thought I was going to die then and there. I became submissive and stopped struggling."

The woman, who had been a virgin, had tried to put her attacker off by saying she had Aids, but he told her she was lying because he knew she was a lesbian, the jury was told.

After the rape, Obidaniel told her: "I am not going to kill you because you are not a dirty woman."

The woman later escaped from the car and a DNA test was taken by police.

Obidaniel was arrested three years later when police found a 14 million to one match in his DNA after he was stopped and tested during a cannabis investigation.