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A failed asylum seeker whose deportation was blocked after cabin crew prevented his repatriation flight from taking off has pleaded guilty to raping a 15-year-old girl.
Anicet Mayela, 40, who once protested outside a detention centre with a sign that read 'migrants are not criminals', could now face life in jail.
Oxford Crown Court heard that there was a high level of 'dangerousness' during the sex attack by the former economics student, The Sun reports.
The Congolese national claimed his life was at risk when he paid an 'agent' to smuggle him out of the African country, arriving in the UK in 2004.
The first attempt to deport him failed after he alleged he was injured in an isolation cell at Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow Airport.
Anicet Mayela, 40, once protested outside a detention centre with a sign that read 'migrants are not criminals'
Mayela was then held at Campsfield House Detention Centre in Kidlington, where he was later pictured with a 'stop detention' sign following his
