A 38-year-old Nigerian, Olaoluwa Ibrahim has been handed eight and a half years jail term after he attacked and raped a woman in the street of London.

The convict was said to have approached his victim as she got off a night bus in Maida Vale after spending the evening with some friends in central London.

It was gathered that Ibrahim tried to engage his victim in a conversation but she ignored him and kept on walking home.

Ibrahim on seeing that his advances was turned down, he grabbed his victim and pushed her into a driveway where he forcefully had canal knowledge of her before stealing her phone in June 24, last year.

At a renewed hearing of the case in the Old Bailey yesterday, the convict who resides at Relf Road, Peckham, pleaded guilty to rape and theft.

The convict had initially denied the attack until detectives’ uncovered DNA evidence. He then alleged that he had consensual sex with the victim, before changing his story again and admitted to rape and theft.

According to the police, the victim gave evidence in the case through a video link from Australia, where she now resides.

The judge while ruling said Ibrahim will be deported back to Nigeria after serving his sentence.

Detective Adam Knott, of the Met’s Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, said Ibrahim since his arrest had shown “no remorse or honesty.”

He said: “I would like to reassure the public that attacks of this nature are extremely rare. When they do occur, we do everything we can to bring the offenders to justice.

“Ibrahim has shown no remorse or honesty from the point of arrest and his deception continued throughout the trial, putting the victim through the trauma of having to recount her ordeal in court. I hope it is of some comfort to her to know he will now spend a considerable amount of time in prison before being deported.

“He is a genuinely dangerous offender and I am pleased he has been removed from public life.”

He added: “I would urge anyone who has been the victim of sexual violence to come forward safe in the knowledge that they will be listened to, the case will be thoroughly investigated and we can provide bespoke victim care depending on individual needs.”