A teenage woman has described the horror of being pulled into woodland and raped by a Nigerian migrant whose deportation had previously been blocked on human rights grounds.
Gift Oladele, 24, attacked the 19-year-old as she made her way home along a quiet footpath in Wrexham, Wales, following a night out on September 7 last year.
The young woman, who has chosen to remain anonymous, has now recalled that after the assault, Oladele told her: “I think you’ve had enough now. At least you have been raped by someone good-looking.”
Before the attack, Oladele had approached her and claimed he was heading in the same direction, offering to walk with her as she returned home.
But when they reached a secluded stretch of the route, he covered her mouth, dragged her into nearby woods and raped her.
Oladele was found guilty of rape and sexual assault in a Mold Crown Court trial in March.
When he carried out the attack, he was already on bail over another rape allegation in his home city of Manchester in November 2024.
He was also previously jailed in 2022 for a sexually motivated attack, and it has emerged he successfully fought against deportation to Nigeria on human rights grounds.
Recalling the rape last September, the woman, now aged 20, said: ‘He was a lot bigger than I was – I tried pushing him away, but he overpowered me.
Gift Oladele, 24, violently raped a 19-year-old woman on an isolated footpath in Wrexham, Wales, as she was walking home from a night out on September 7, 2025
Oladele was sentenced to a total of 25 years, including 17 years in prison, with an extended licence period of eight years
‘He was covering my mouth. I was trying to get his arm off me, but he wasn’t budging. That’s when he raped me violently.
‘He asked me if it was the first time I had been raped. Pictures of my family kept flashing in my head because I thought he was going to kill me.
‘My brain just switched into survival mode – it was weird. It was either I do what he says, and I get home to my mum, or he is going to kill me.
‘He hit me in the head six times, and my backside and his handprint were bruised on me.
‘When he finished, he turned around and said, “I think you’ve had enough now. At least you have been raped by someone good-looking”.’
Oladele threatened he would “find her” if she reported the rape, and threatened to take photographs and post them online.
But when she got home at about 3.30 am, she immediately told her parents, and the police were called.
She said: ‘I came in screaming, saying “mum”, and then I walked into their room and I went, ‘you need to ring the police’.
‘My mum said, “Why?” and I said, “I’ve just been raped,” and my mum ran to the toilet to be sick.
‘I felt numb. I was hysterical. My brain couldn’t figure out what had just happened. My dad called the police, and they came out in about 10 minutes.
‘I just kept pacing up and down our living room to calm myself. I was trying to be strong to tell the police what had happened.
‘My grandma always says “God turns the hardest battles to the strongest soldiers”, and I kept thinking that for myself.’
Oladele was jailed in December 2022 for two years for falsely imprisoning a woman in Manchester. CCTV images (above) show him at the scene
Oladele was arrested the next day at his cousin’s home in Wrexham.
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He had attempted to hide a mobile phone from officers, which later revealed searches for sexual attacks.
She said September was the ‘hardest month of her life’ and the impact of the rape caused her relationship to hit a breaking point.
The woman explained: ‘There were numerous times a day when I would be hysterically crying because I didn’t want to be here anymore.
‘I went to A&E because I couldn’t eat, and they said I ended up with an eating disorder.’
Oladele denied rape and sexual assault, claiming the victim had consented, but a jury found him guilty at Mold Crown Court in March.
At Caernarfon Crown Court on Thursday, April 30, he was sentenced to a total of 25 years, including 17 years in prison, with an extended licence period of eight years.
He was also handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a restraining order to protect the victim for life.
Oladele, a Nigerian citizen born in Italy, entered the UK with a valid clearance lasting until 2014 but subsequently remained in the country unlawfully.
After his first prison sentence, Oladele was due to be deported, but successfully appealed the decision.
He challenged the decision, arguing that removal would breach his Article 8 rights to private and family life.
Although the Home Office maintained that deportation was justified, Oladele appealed to an immigration tribunal in June 2023.
The tribunal ruled in his favour, finding that deportation would be disproportionate.
According to the Manchester Evening News, the judge at the immigration tribunal in 2024 said the matter was ‘finely balanced’.
The judge added that the offence Oladele had committed was ‘very serious’ and that there was ‘a strong public interest in deporting and excluding foreign criminals, especially one who has committed a frightening and public assault’.
However, the fact that he would be ‘a complete outsider should he relocate to Nigeria’ and that he had a ‘developed private life having grown up in the United Kingdom’ outweighed the public interest in deporting him.
The Home Office made two appeals, both of which were rejected by the court.
The young woman’s mother said: ‘Where are my daughter’s rights? That’s what I want to know. She has the right to walk home after a night out without being raped.
‘He showed no remorse in court.’
Wrexham Chief Inspector Caroline Mullen-Hurst said: ‘Oladele is a dangerous predator who left a young woman fearing for her life as he subjected her to a disturbing and terrifying attack as she walked home following a night with her friends.
‘He demonstrated no remorse for his crimes after forcing her to relive the traumatic experience through a trial.
‘I would like to praise the dignity and courage she has shown throughout the investigation, and for her bravery in reporting this incident to us.’
A Home Office spokesman said: ‘This was a horrific case, and our thoughts are with the victim. It is only right that this criminal has received a lengthy prison sentence for his actions.
‘More than 70,000 illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been returned since this government took office, a 41 per cent increase. We will always seek to deport foreign criminals at the earliest possible opportunity.’
Victims of rape or sexual assault, recent or non-recent, can self-refer to The Bridge, a Sexual Assault Referral Centre, which is available 24/7 365 days a year, visit their website or call 0117 342 6999.