UK-based Nigerian faces sentencing after rape conviction
Gift Oladele, a Nigerian living in the United Kingdom, has been convicted of raping a 19-year-old woman. He dragged the victim into the woods near Wrexham and assaulted her after she was walking home from a night out. Oladele had previously been jailed for falsely imprisoning a woman and had successfully appealed a deportation order before committing this crime. Another Nigerian, Chiemeka Okoronta, was also reported to have been scheduled for deportation after a separate rape conviction in the UK.
What happened
- Gift Oladele was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman in woodland near Wrexham.
- The incident occurred in September 2025, and he was convicted last Friday.
- Oladele had previously been jailed for two years for falsely imprisoning a woman in Manchester in 2022.
- The UK Home Office ordered his deportation in 2023, but he successfully appealed, citing his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.
- In November 2025, Chiemeka Okoronta, another Nigerian postgraduate student, was reported to be scheduled for deportation after a rape conviction.
