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A pair of 'dangerous' thugs have been jailed for a total of 31 years for raping a woman who was abducted off the streets after she became lost in a city.
Fabrice Mpata, 39, had been driving in the Winson Green area of Birmingham when the African victim, who had become separated from her family, asked him for help.
He took advantage of her vulnerability as well as the fact she couldn't speak English and lured her into his car on the premise he was going to take her home.
Instead, he took her to a friend's house where he raped her twice.
He then 'offered her up' to pal Rigobert Ngambe, 45, who also raped her before she was left abandoned in the street.
Fabrice Mpata, 39, abducted and raped an African woman who could barely speak English and was lost in the Winson Green area of Birmingham
A passing taxi driver took the terrified woman to hospital and officers were later able to track down the vile pair using DNA evidence.
Mpata, of Saltley, Birmingham, was previously convicted of two counts of rape following a trial and was jailed for 16 years. He was handed a three-year extended licence period.
Ngambe, from the Hockley area of the city, was sentenced to 15 years after being found guilty of one charge of rape at Birmingham Crown Court. He received a two-year extended licence period.
The court heard the middle-aged African woman had become separated from other family members when she came across Mbata on August 20, 2022.
Sentencing, Judge Avik Mukherjee said: 'She had extremely limited English if any English at all. She was stranded in Birmingham, lost and alone.
'What happened to her? Over the next hours, many hours, both of you humiliated her, degraded her and used her vulnerability against her.
'She needed help. She could not find her way back to her sister-in-law's home.
'She asked for help and she was
