A SMALL boat migrant who dragged a woman into his tent in a homeless encampment and repeatedly raped her is facing years in jail.
targeted his victim after she had been out drinking with work colleagues on September 20 last year.
She stopped to chat to the 32-year-old and his friends near Embankment tube station in Central London because she lived near “a lovely community” and enjoyed listening to them speak Arabic, a court heard.
But Elbohy pulled her into his tent and used Google Translate to threaten her.
He then forced the woman to the ground and raped her twice.
Prosecutor Richard Milne told Southwark crown that she thought Elbohy might kill her in the tarpaulin encampment under Hungerford Bridge.
He said: “She was scared and fearful, and told him she needed to get home to her husband and children.”
When the woman got away, she contacted an actor friend who had just finished in a play.
He arrived within 15 minutes and took her to Charing Cross station to report the attack.
The woman told police: “I was really scared. It was dark and there was no one else around.
“He was a really volatile, angry man.
“I felt fear and scaredness. I felt disgusting.”
Speaking with her head in her hands, she told police officers: “He was really rough.”
Elbohy, whose address was formerly given as the Doubletree by Hilton Reading in Wokingham, Berkshire, claimed his victim consented to sex.
But he was convicted of two counts of rape yesterday by a jury after seven hours and 57 minutes of deliberation.
Elbohy — who entered the country on a small boat three months before the attack and was housed in a hotel where he made an unsuccessful asylum claim — will be sentenced on Tuesday.
