Poles jailed in UK for student rape

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Roman Smentek (37) and housemate Krzysztof Drozdz (26) were both given sentences of eight years and nine months at Hull Crown Court on Wednesday.

The 19-year-old victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had caught a taxi to the wrong address after an evening at a nightclub in the city.

She told the court that she believes her drink had been spiked.

A member of the public tried to intervene to help the student on seeing her in a disorientated state in the street, just a few doors down from her family home.

However, he was fobbed off by the Polish pair, who locked themselves in a bedroom with the young woman.

The police were called to the scene, after the member of the public informed the student's mother.

During sentencing, Judge Michael Mettyear told the defendants that they had repeatedly lied.

“You pleaded guilty not out of any sense of remorse but because the evidence which had grown as the case progressed persuaded you that to fight on was hopeless,” he said.

Source: Daily Telegraph/ Hull Daily Mail