A man found guilty of orally penetrating a woman until she died has been given what is called in the United Kingdom a “life” sentence , with a minimum term of ten years and eight months.
35-year-old Mohamed Lidow was found guilty in October 2024 of raping 37-year-old hospital administrator and mother-of-three Natalie Shotter. A judge at the Old Bailey, England’s Central Criminal Court, called Lidow a “dangerous offender” and sentenced him to life in prison on Friday for rape and manslaughter.
But under the British system actual life sentences — where criminals can never be released from prison — are comparatively rare, and Lidow was given a so-called ‘tariff’ of ten years in eight months. After he has served that, he will be eligible for parole, if the Parole Board deems he is no longer a danger to the public.
As reported by the BBC, additional details about the case known now Lidow has been convicted that after the attack reveal that even while he was being investigated for rape in 2022 he had been caught having “explicit” sexual conversations with a girl he believed to be 13 years old.
In the early hours of the 16th of July 2021 Lidow had spotted victim Natalie Shotter on a park bench in West London and attacked her. Shotter had been drinking with friends and was unconscious, and CCTV footage showed Lidow raping her and moving her body around. Despite this evidence, he maintained the pretence the sexual acts that killed Shotter had been consensual, and his lawyers later turned the story around in a bid to avoid a conviction for manslaughter, claiming Shotter was already dead before Lidow found her, and he was in fact raping her corpse. […]
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