16yo from Sierra Leone sexually assaulted five women in London park

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Victim of sex attack goes public on early freeing of offenders

A woman subjected to a brutal sex assault has waived her right to anonymity to condemn the criminal justice system.

Gabrielle Browne decided to go public with damning allegations following her ordeal at the hands of a sex offender who had been freed from prison early.

Mrs Browne, a mother of two, was jogging through her local park when a teenager dragged her into bushes and sexually assaulted her.

The attack left her traumatised and too afraid to enter parks or go running alone.

Today she tells her story for the first time. In an interview, Mrs Browne reveals:

”�¢ Her attacker, Mohammed Kendeh, had been let out of prison four months into a one-year sentence days before she was attacked.

”�¢ Kendeh had sexually assaulted five women in the same park a year before he attacked her but was spared jail for those offences.

”�¢ The Home Office tried to deport the teenager to his birthplace in Sierra Leone - but an immigration tribunal rejected the request.

”�¢ She is still living in fear after Kendeh was released halfway through his latest sentence for attacking her.

Mrs Browne, 42, who lives in south London, said: "I was sexually assaulted because Mohammed Kendeh was released early. The attack has had a devastating effect on my life. My freedom has been taken away."

Mrs Browne was running through Burgess Park in south-east London while training for the London Marathon when Kendeh, then 16, attacked her on 6 March 2003.

The IT worker at a City law firm recalled: "He jumped in front of me, grinned, and as I tried to take a step, his right arm came out and grabbed me around the neck.

"He then dragged me into the bushes. His whole focus was on trying to remove my lower clothing. I feared that if I shouted out he would pull a knife.

"I punched him but he still carried on. So I hit him harder and then punched him again. "But he just smashed me in my mouth."

She said Kendeh pushed her to the ground, removed her clothing and began to molest her.

"I thought he was going to rape me,Ã*® said Mrs Browne.

"He only didn't because I fought him off - by now I was kicking him hard - or because he heard somebody."

Kendeh was arrested that day and charged with attempted rape. He had been released from a young offender institution on 27 February that year - four months into a 13-month sentence for burglary.

He had been spared custody altogether for six previous sex assaults in 2002.

Following his arrest for the attack on Mrs Browne, Kendeh was released on bail on 2 April 2003 after she failed to identify him in a video.

Two days later he committed a robbery and five days after that broke into a woman's home and indecently assaulted her.

But because Mrs Browne had been unable to identify Kendeh - he wore a hooded top during the attack - the attempted rape charge was dropped.

After a year of campaigning, Kendeh was charged with indecent assault in April 2004.

In January 2005, on the eve of a trial at the Old Bailey, Kendeh changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to four years in jail on two counts of indecent assault.

Mrs Browne was furious at the length of sentence. Kendeh was given discounts because of the time it took to come to court and for pleading guilty.

In February this year, Kendeh was released after serving two years and is now understood to be living in a bail hostel, having been placed on the sex offenders register.

A move to have him deported was blocked on the grounds his family live in London and he moved here aged seven.

Mrs Browne is staggered he is back on the streets and believes he will strike again. At her new home, surrounded by pictures of her husband and her children, aged 13 and nine, the tears run down her cheeks.

"How many more people have to suffer at the hands of the Government who want to release criminals back on to our streets?

"In my case it only took Mohammed Kendeh seven days to re-offend," she said.

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[Rasp]

Human rights halt sex attacker’s deportation

Human rights halt sex attacker’s deportation

A convicted sex attacker from Sierra Leone should not be deported because it would breach his human right to a family life, a judge ruled on Tuesday.

Mohammed Kendeh, who was considered at 'high risk' of reoffending, has been allowed to stay in Britain because he was 'one of us' after moving here at the age of six.



One of his victims, Gabrielle Browne, said Sir Henry Hodge's decision to uphold an earlier veto on deportation left her 'devastated and let down'. 'It is more than possible he will rape or kill a future victim,' added the mother-oftwo, who has waived her right to anonymity.

Kendeh attacked Mrs Browne, 42, and dragged her in to bushes as she jogged through a South London park in 2003.

He was 16 at the time. He was jailed for one year but released after four months.

Last year, the Home Office tried to deport the 20-year-old, saying he would reoffend.

But an immigration judge blocked the attempt, a move which was upheld by Mr Justice Hodge.

The veto comes despite an acknowledgement by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal that Kendeh has a history of 'serious sexual assault' and shows a 'high risk' of committing further crimes.

Mr Justice Hodge, husband of Labour minister Margaret Hodge, agreed with an earlier ruling that Kendeh had almost no relatives in Sierra Leone and must stay in Britain under Article Eight of the Human Rights Act.

It follows other failed attempts by the Government to deport foreign criminals, such as Italian-born Learco Chindamo, who murdered headteacher Philip Lawrence in 1995.

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Originally Posted by Rasp

Mr Justice Hodge, husband of Labour minister Margaret Hodge, agreed with an earlier ruling that Kendeh had almost no relatives in Sierra Leone and must stay in Britain under Article Eight of the Human Rights Act.

It follows other failed attempts by the Government to deport foreign criminals, such as Italian-born Learco Chindamo, who murdered headteacher Philip Lawrence in 1995.

"He's just an incorrigible youth looking for a girl to frolick in the park with. It's not like he actually killed someone, like than Italian chap..."

[William of the White Hand]

If the government is prepared to let a feral nigger run loose - then it should be prepared to compensate victims - big time. I don't see why white women should suffer because the nigger doesn't have relatives - though I suspect that in itself is a lie.

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Immigrant, 22 , pushed woman to ground then assaulted her
30 September 2009

AN UNEMPLOYED immigrant who was allowed to remain in the UK despite sexually assaulting several women struck again within days of his prison release.

Mohammed Kendeh, 22, from the Beckenham area is due to be sentenced at Croydon Crown Court on October 16 after pleading guilty to attacking a woman at allotments near Thayers Farm Road in Penge on July 17 this year.

The 28-year-old had a jacket thrown over her head before being pushed to the ground, threatened and her purse snatched out of her hand. Kendeh was arrested nearby shortly afterwards.

Kendeh was only released from prison earlier on in July this year after being jailed in February 2005 following two guilty pleas to two counts of indecent assault in March 2003. Again, he had only been out of a detention centre for a week when he committed the first of these offences after serving a sentence for burglary.

In November 2007 Sir Henry Hodge, the UK's leading immigration judge ruled that Kendeh should not be deported to his native Sierra Leone despite the Home Office stating that he had a high chance of re-offending.

Hodge's reasoning was that it would breach Kendeh's Human Rights to have a family life.

At the time of his decision, one of his victims, Gabrielle Browne, waived her right to anonymity as a victim of sexual assault to speak of her devastation at the ruling.

Mrs Browne, 42, believes she would have been raped by Kendah, who was just 16 at the time, had she not fought him off with kicks after he pounced on her in a park in Camberwell in 2003.

Training for the London marathon, Mrs Browne had been running through the park but as she turned a corner Kendah blocked her path and dragged her into bushes before pulling down her shorts and underwear.

She told reporters: "He groped me, but I had my legs free and I kicked him as hard, as violently and as frequently as I could, and after a few minutes he ran off and sprang over a railing."

Kendah was arrested shortly after assaulting Mrs Browne and pleaded guilty on the first day of the trial. Since then he has been in and out of jail for sexual offences, robbery and burglary.

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Gabrielle Browne, the victim of a terrifying sexual assault by a foreign criminal, has spoken of her anger at how he has used the Human Rights Act to remain in Britain.

Victim's anger at sex attacker we can't deport

Running along a canal towpath in preparation for the London marathon, Mrs Browne, a mother-of-two, was dragged off the path and into the undergrowth by a teenager who grabbed her around the throat, struck her in the face, forced her to the ground and then sexually assaulted her.

Convinced she would be raped, Mrs Browne, fought back, kicking her attacker hard and as a stranger approached, the youth ran off.

"I was in fear of my life. I thought he was going to kill me. I was sure he was going to rape me," she says, as the memories come flooding back.

"I remember running along this canal path where I always ran. I just remember this man approaching me from behind a blind corner. He stepped out in front of me, blocking my path and asking me the time.

"And then he just grinned at me and I remembered thinking 'oh no'. I took one more step but his right arm came out around my throat. I can still feel his arm coming around my neck but then I don't have any recollection of what happened next but I must have been dragged 100 to 150 metres.

"I don't know if my mind went blank or I lost consciousness for a few minutes but the next thing I was aware of him shoving me up against a wall with his head braced against my chest and his body at 90 degrees.

"His whole focus was on removing my lower clothing. I realised I had my hands free and I hit him hard. He then hit me in the mouth – I don't know whether that was with his fist or his head. But then he threw me to the ground and pulled down my clothes.

"He started sexually assaulting me but finally I just got my legs free and I started kicking him as hard as I could. Then I heard somebody approaching and he just ran off."

Her assailant was caught by police later that day – but rather than being the end of her ordeal, it was just the beginning. Mohammed Kendeh, now aged 22, has used the Human Rights Act to resist all attempts to deport him back to his native Sierra Leone – despite admitting responsibility for at least 11 sexual assaults as well as a number of street robberies.

It leaves Mrs Browne distraught to know Kendeh is still in Britain when – but for the Human Rights Act – he should be thousands of miles away languishing in west Africa – and no longer a danger to her or other women.

"It makes my blood boil," says Mrs Browne, who has waived her right to anonymity as the victim of a sexual assault to speak out against Kendeh.

"He is allowed to stay here because to send him home would breach his human rights. But nobody seems to care about my rights when he tried to rape me. Nobody cares about the other women he has attacked."

Six years on from the assault, Mrs Browne, now aged 44, remains deeply upset. She has had to move house and refuses to enter parks alone.

"Kendeh has dramatically altered my life. Prior to him attacking me although I lived in a fairly rough area of London, I felt comfortable with my life and my surroundings," explains Mrs Browne.

"Now I still suffer from a fear of being alone and at the same time I also fear being in a crowd of people because I never know who is quite there."

Every time Kendeh nears release – he has been in prison for most of his adult life – she suffers panic attacks, unable to sleep at night and gripped by terror.

Kendeh first went to prison aged 15 and has been barely out of jail since, often being caught within weeks of release.

This Friday he is due to be sentenced for his latest crime, having pleaded guilty last month to robbery during a short hearing at Croydon Crown Court. Kendeh robbed his victim in Bromley in south east London on July 17 having walked out of High Down prison in Sutton in Surrey exactly three weeks earlier where he was completing his sentence for the sex attack on Mrs Browne, an IT worker in the City.

The Home Office tried to deport Kendeh in 2007 for the sex attack on Mrs Browne but Sir Henry Hodge, then the country's top immigration judge, who has since died, ruled that deportation breached the offender's right to a family life under article eight of the Human Rights Act – even though he agreed that Kendeh's conduct was 'most revolting'.

Kendeh had come to Britain at the age of seven and had been brought up by his parents in south London. His lawyers successfully argued Kendeh should not be sent back to Africa.

Kendeh, who was refused British citizenship because of his appalling criminal record, has been granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK. He has no family in Sierra Leone and nobody to stay with there.

[Smilin' Jack]

Solution: Send Sir Henry with Kendeh to Sierra Leone--then they'll both "have family there."

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Sex victim wins 6-year battle to have her attacker deported
By Lucy Ballinger
Last updated at 12:06 AM on 17th October 2009

Fight for justice: Gabrielle Browne was attacked on a towpath by Mohamed Kendeh in 2003 while training for the London Marathon


Deported: Mohamed Kendeh, 22, is being sent back to Sierra Leone

A woman sexually assaulted by an immigrant yesterday won her six-and-a-half year battle to have her attacker deported.

Gabrielle Browne, 44, was training for the London Marathon on a towpath when she was attacked by Mohamed Kendeh in 2003.

The 22-year-old immigrant, from Sierra Leone, also admitted carrying out a string of assaults on at least 11 women - striking when they were alone or with children in public parks.

However, despite attempts by the Home Office to deport him, Britain's top immigration judge refused, claiming that to do so would breach his human rights.

Yesterday, a crown court judge overruled that controversial judgement.
Mrs Browne, a mother of two, who has waived her right to anonymity, broke down in tears after being told she had won her fight for justice.

She said: 'It is quite possible that lots of victims just let the police get on with it.

'But if I hadn't chased what happened following his release in 2007 then he would never have been deported.

'I pushed for an exclusion zone to be set-up in the area of the attacks and told police there were immigration issues each time he was arrested for another offence so steps could be taken to deport him.

'I have also pursued it through my MP, who put pressure on the Home Office to find out what was happening.

'I have fought for his deportation for a very long time. I can't undo what he did to me and the affect that has had on me and my family.

'But if I can stop him from reoffending against other women then there is some value to what I am doing.'

Kendeh, then 16, grabbed Mrs Browne from behind before dragging her along the ground and trying to rape her.

After his arrest, she discovered he had recently been released from a young offenders institution after being found guilty of four sexual assaults on lone women when he was just 15.

All of the attacks took place in parks - two on women who had young children with them at the time.

Kendeh, then a heavy cannabis smoker, had also committed burglaries, theft, arson, drug offences and taken a vehicle without consent.

Despite this history, Kendeh was released on bail - only to carry out another attack on a woman by herself in her home a month later.

He was jailed at the Old Bailey for the two attacks, and the Home Office made attempts to deport him.

However, these requests were refused by top immigration judge Sir Henry Hodge.

He said although the sex attacker had been refused British citizenship and was likely to reoffend, sending him back to Sierra Leone would breach his right to a family life.

But Mrs Browne refused to give up. She continued to pressure MPs and police each time he came up for parole, and pushed for an exclusion zone to be set up in Southwark, Central London - the area where most of the assaults took place.

And yesterday, during sentencing for his latest crime, a street robbery, committed after his release in June this year, Judge Simon Pratt at Croydon Crown Court finally recommended Kendeh be deported afterwards.

Sentencing Kendeh to five and half years in jail and two years on licence, Judge Pratt said: 'You targeted another woman in circumstances where she was extremely vulnerable.

'Such vulnerability is every woman's nightmare. You have had ample experience of the terror that you have caused lone women and you admitted that you saw her as easy to rob because you could overpower her.

'You are 22 and you have an appalling record for sexual assaults on lone females, as well as a previous conviction for a robbery in 2003.

'I unhesitatingly view you to be a dangerous offender and I am firmly of the view that you present a serious risk to the public by the commissioning of serious and unspecified offences.

'I regard your continuing presence in this country as contrary to this country's good and I recommend your deportation.'

Olatokunbo Atanda, for the defence, said yesterday: 'Mr Kendeh is 22, he has had a very troubled childhood, he has been incarcerated for most of his life and is unable to deal with normal life anymore.

'He has had no other life, it seems, apart from being incarcerated from a young age to adulthood.'

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