Rapist jailed for 10 years for attacking date he met on matchmaking website

Rapist jailed for 10 years for attacking date he met on matchmaking website
Rapist jailed for 10 years for attacking date he met on matchmaking website

A man has been jailed for 10 and a half years for raping a woman in her home after meeting her on a matchmaking website and sexually assaulting another woman he met online.

Chinmay Patel, 34, denied the charges but was convicted of two counts of rape and two of sexual assault by a jury at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday. 

The court heard that Patel contacted his victim on Shaadi.com, a matchmaking site for people of South Asian descent.

He raped her in her London flat after she allowed him to stay on the sofa before attacking her again the following morning.

Patel sexually assaulted a second woman in Leeds after meeting her on the dating app Hinge. The court heard that he bit her and tried to force her legs apart on July 7 last year.

Patel was previously convicted of battery in April 2017 after shoving his partner against a fence, slapping her 12 times and shouting: 'I will sort you out when we get home!'.

During Thursday's court hearing, Patel's victims both read impact statements.

'The incident has ruined my life,' the first woman, who has not been named for legal reasons, said. 

'I'm not the same person I used to be, I'm very closed and guarded now. I feel vulnerable and unsafe when I go outside, I feel the need to check if he is behind me. 

'I feel unsafe and in danger as he knows my address.' 

The woman also told the court how she had to wait three months for the results of a HIV test following the rape.

The second woman, who was also not named for legal reasons, said in her statement: 'I couldn't look at my own body, I couldn't even wash my own body without crying.'

Patel wore a grey prison-issue jumper as he sat in the dock holding a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a piece of Hindu scripture.

A man has been jailed for 10 and a half years for raping a woman in her home after meeting her on a matchmaking website and sexually assaulting another woman he met online. Chinmay Patel, 34, was convicted of two counts of rape and two of sexual assault by a jury at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday

A man has been jailed for 10 and a half years for raping a woman in her home after meeting her on a matchmaking website and sexually assaulting another woman he met online. Chinmay Patel, 34, was convicted of two counts of rape and two of sexual assault by a jury at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday

Judge Michael Grieve, QC said of the first victim: 'You have ruined her life and caused her significant psychological trauma.' 

The court heard how Patel said 'It's not like I'm raping you' to the woman when she refused to kiss him during their date.

They went out for a meal and Patel tried to get her drunk by plying her with wine and sambuca, the court heard.  

'He tried to kiss me, I said "I don't want to kiss," the first victim told jurors. 'He put his hand up my top, I said no, he took it out. We kissed and he came to kiss my neck and he bit it'.

The woman said they left the restaurant in the early hours of the morning and Patel became 'grumpy' when she refused to let him come to her home.

'He started saying that we've been arguing for an hour on the road, it's cold, his sinus is hurting.'

She eventually agreed that he could stay on her sofa when he claimed he needed to pick up a friend from Stansted Airport in two hours.

But once they were in her flat he looked into every room before 'rushing' to her room and pushing clothes off the bed with a big smile,

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