A FORMER Championship striker is facing jailhouse aft helium was convicted of raping a drunk pistillate successful her furniture portion she slept astatine an Airbnb.
Oluwasanmi Odelusi, known arsenic Sanmi, retired from the crippled successful 2020 owed to wounded aft playing for clubs including Bolton Wanderers, MK Dons and Coventry City.
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GettyThe erstwhile pro, 31, announced the status to his 11,000 followers connected Instagram and present helps youngsters get into the athletics and is simply a “devout Christian” and religion usher.
Prosecuting, Charles Evans said the victim, past 27, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons, was visiting London from the USA with 2 pistillate friends.
The pistillate had travel with her pal for a week to observe Thanksgiving successful November 2021 erstwhile she was raped, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
Mr Evans said: “They stayed successful an Airbnb level with 3 bedrooms successful Shoreditch, eastbound London, and connected the evening of Friday November 26 decided to spell clubbing.
“The complainant had a person successful London she wanted to conscionable truthful they each went to Reign nightclub successful Piccadilly.”
Mr Evans said the unfortunate and her friends were drinking rather heavily.
He said: “The complainant couldn’t retrieve however galore shots of tequila she had but says that she did person rather a few.
“They past went to the nine successful Piccadilly, arriving determination immoderate clip aft midnight. More intoxicant was consumed and the complainant was feeling drunk but not to the constituent of blacking out.”
Inside the nine 1 of the victim’s friends kissed Ryan Sellers, a footballer person of Odelusi’s and erstwhile it was clip to permission the club, the 2 men were invited backmost to the Airbnb with the 3 women, arriving determination astatine 4am oregon 5am.
The unfortunate said her representation “let her down a little” owed to the intoxicant and she did “not callback overmuch of the taxi thrust home,” but she could intelligibly retrieve the consequent rape.
Mr Sellers went into 1 of the girl’s rooms and Odelusi archetypal went into the victim’s, but she explained she was not interested, and helium was, instead, welcomed into her different friend’s bed, the tribunal heard.
Odelusi had consensual enactment with the friend, but aft a portion she asked him to stop, which helium did, the tribunal heard.
He past went into the victim’s country and raped her astatine astir 6am, the tribunal heard.
She awoke and realised idiosyncratic was having enactment with her, but she was incapable to speak.
Odelusi past returned to the friend’s room, portion the unfortunate went backmost to sleep, the tribunal heard.
HORROR ATTACK
Odelusi and Mr Sellers aboriginal past near the flat, the tribunal heard.
Mr Evans said the unfortunate awoke astatine 11am and felt confused.
She lone told different pistillate person astir the rape, erstwhile she met her successful Stratford, aboriginal the aforesaid day, the tribunal was told.
The person urged her to study it to police, but she was frightened she mightiness not beryllium capable to place her attacker, adjacent though she knew helium was black, Mr Evans said.
At astir 12:50am connected November 28 constabulary received a telephone from friends of the complainant, to study the offence, arsenic she was excessively upset.
The 3 women were owed to permission the state aboriginal that day.
One of her friends had a video interrogation with constabulary earlier they left, but the unfortunate aboriginal was interviewed by Met Police officers who travelled to Beverly Hills constabulary station.
The interrogation was video recorded connected April 19 2022.
The CPS utilized a caller strategy successful the proceedings whereby the video of the victim’s interrogation was played and the witnesser did not person to springiness unrecorded evidence.
Odelusi was identified from CCTV astatine the nine and from a photograph 1 of the girls had taken connected the night.
DNA MATCH
Odelusi was invited to be a voluntary connected November 29, and made nary comment.
His DNA was aboriginal matched to semen traces.
Mr Evans said: “A sleeping idiosyncratic cannot springiness consent. It is that simple.
“It is not the Crown’s lawsuit that the complainant was too
intoxicated to consent, but it is the Crown’s lawsuit that her intoxication surely contributed to the circumstances whereby the suspect was capable to rape the sleeping complainant.”
Odelusi, vehemently denied this, and insisted she was awake and had consented earlier thing happened.
Defending Claire Cooper, told the tribunal the unfortunate had shown involvement successful Odelusi successful the taxi and had shown him her Instagram relationship and helium complimented her pictures, but they “did not adhd each other.”
She said: “He was shocked and amazed erstwhile helium was asked to be the constabulary station.
“He cooperated with the police. He was not been arrogant of himself aft sleeping with some women, but his actions were not of idiosyncratic who was blameworthy of rape.”
She said the enactment had been consensual with some women and helium had initially stayed astatine the level aft some encounters.
The assemblage recovered him blameworthy by a 10 to 2 bulk verdict.
Odelusi was released connected conditional bail up of condemnation successful May.
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