🔴 HULL HOTEL RAPE: TWO JAILED FOR ATTACK GIRL, 13
SHOCKING HULL HOTEL RAPE HORROR: Drunk 13-year-old girl frog-marched to room, repeatedly violated while lookout kept watch – two predators jailed for child rape nightmare. Two men have been jailed for raping a 13-year-old girl after luring her to a hotel room in Hull, where one carried out repeated attacks while the other acted as lookout.
Shahram Ibrehemi, now 20, an Iranian national who had been living in immigration-based accommodation, admitted rape and was sentenced to nine years and seven months’ imprisonment at Grimsby Crown Court.
Riley Smith, now 19, originally from Grimsby but living in Hull at the time of the offence, denied rape but was convicted by a jury following a trial. He was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, having refused to attend court for the sentencing hearing.
Judge Gurdial Singh told Ibrehemi the girl “did not stand a chance” after being “frog-marched” to the hotel room. He described her as the defendant’s “quarry”, adding: “She did not stand a chance when you approached her. You told her to stand up and come with you. You frog-marched her to the hotel.”
The offences occurred when the victim, then 13, was out socialising with friends in Hull. She encountered Ibrehemi, then 19, and Smith, then 18, who invited her to “go around town with them” and said they were staying at a hotel in the city.
The girl told the pair her age and repeatedly asked them to leave her alone, calling them “paedos” and saying she had no intention of going with them. She gave them her mobile number in the hope they would stop persisting.
After briefly rejoining her friends and consuming alcohol—including three-quarters of a litre of vodka mixed with cherry Coke—she became heavily intoxicated and “unable to walk in a straight line”.
The men met her again and took her to Smith’s hotel room. CCTV footage showed the girl was barely capable of standing.
Smith stood outside on lookout, telling Ibrehemi he would give them 20 minutes. Judge Singh said: “You knew what was going to happen.”
Ibrehemi then repeatedly raped the girl. A pillow was placed over her head and she was punched in the leg. Smith entered the room at points, telling Ibrehemi to “shut her up as she was going to get you both caught”.
CCTV captured Smith pacing the corridor “like a cat on a hot tin roof” while occasionally looking into the room. When a hotel staff member approached due to suspicious behaviour, Smith claimed he was trying to get a mobile phone signal. The staff member later heard Smith open the door and urge Ibrehemi to “hurry up”.
The men then walked the girl out of the hotel, again captured on CCTV as heavily intoxicated and barely able to walk.
Her next recollection was being collected by her father from Anlaby Road and taken home. She later confided in a friend, leading to her parents being informed and Humberside Police being alerted. Both men were arrested.
Claire Holmes, prosecuting, read the victim’s impact statement to the court. The girl, who attended with support from friends and the court witness service, said: “The pain and hurt is hard to comprehend. The two men have taken away my confidence, my personality, my ability to function and my virginity. My virginity should have been protected, as should have I.
“It should have been with someone I love and someone who loved me. I will never get over being raped. It is with me every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
“It is something that will live with me forever and I will never forget what happened to me.”
She described herself as previously a happy, confident young woman who now felt scared, mistrusted boys and men, and rarely went out, adding: “I hope I can find the fun-loving, silly, confident young woman I was.”
Judge Singh noted the offenders acted together in committing the rape, which occurred under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
Mitigation for Ibrehemi, presented by Rachel Scott, highlighted that he was 19 at the time, showing immaturity, and had pleaded guilty at an early stage. He arrived in the UK as a 17-year-old refugee from Iran after his father paid people smugglers due to danger in his homeland. He had been isolated with little family contact and no previous convictions. He wished to apologise to the victim. He had been the victim of assaults while awaiting sentence, and deportation by the Home Office was anticipated.
For Smith, Michele Stuart-Lofthouse submitted a psychological report and a letter from his mother, citing a chaotic background involving care, domestic abuse, and childhood exploitation through County Lines drug dealing in Grimsby. He had moved to Hull to start anew and apologised for his actions.
Judge Singh told Smith he had not physically attacked the girl but acted as lookout: “Without you providing the room and lying to the witness, this offence could not have been committed.”
Both defendants will serve at least two-thirds of their sentences before being eligible for parole consideration. They have been placed on the sex offenders’ register for life and are subject to a lifelong barring order from working with children.
Addressing the victim directly, Judge Singh said the sentences would offer little comfort and could not undo what happened. He stressed she was the victim and should not reproach herself for consuming alcohol.
“All young people are entitled to make mistakes,” he said. “They took advantage of you. You had the most awful experience. It was not of your making.”
