A 37-year-old woman died after she was raped ‘again and again’ by a stranger on a park bench, a UK court heard.
As per reports, Natalie Shotter was on a night out before she was allegedly attacked by 35-year-old Mohamed Iidow who is on trial for rape and manslaughter.
The mother-of-three was found dead by a passer-by hours later in Southall Park, west London, on July 17, 2021.
The prosecutor said Natalie was ‘a vulnerable woman out enjoying herself who was then taken advantage of by this defendant’.
“Natalie does not appear to have been conscious at the time that she was raped, let alone consenting to the defendant. He could never have believed that she was consenting. It was the process of raping Natalie repeatedly that caused her death,” the Prosecutor said.
“She had not been stabbed or beaten to death, there were no obvious signs of significant injury to her body and there was nobody else with her,” the prosecutor added.
Although it is grainy and at a distance, the prosecution alleges that the footage from the CCTV, at some distance away from the bench on which she was found, shows the defendant engaging in acts of oral penetration.
The CCTV allegedly showed Iidow ‘positioning’ himself and Natalie in ways to ‘insert his penis into her mouth’, the prosecutor said.