A 20-year-old woman has publicly described how Gift Oladele, a 24-year-old Nigerian national then of no fixed abode, raped her on an isolated footpath in Wrexham, north Wales, in the early hours of 7 September 2025.

Judge Simon Mills of Caernarfon Crown Court sentenced Gift Oladele on 30 April 2026 to 17 years in prison with an extended licence of eight years. Wrexham Chief Inspector Caroline Mullen-Hurst later described Gift Oladele as a dangerous predator.

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The account, first published by the Daily Mail on 8 September 2026 and widely reported the following day, is the first detailed public recollection by the woman since the trial.

Gift Oladele jailed after a jury at Mold Crown Court in March 2026 found him guilty of rape and assault by penetration. Gift Oladele had denied both charges and said the encounter was consensual.

The jury rejected that account. Automatic reporting restrictions continue to protect the identity of the woman, who was 19 at the time.

The attack began after Gift Oladele approached the woman and a friend outside a takeaway on Regent Street. Gift Oladele said he was walking the same way and offered to accompany her.

When the pair reached a wooded stretch near Mold Road, Gift Oladele put a hand over her mouth and forced her off the path. The woman said Gift Oladele was much larger than she was and that she could not break free.

“He was covering my mouth. I was trying to get his arm off me, but he wasn’t budging. That’s when he raped me violently,” the woman said. Gift Oladele asked whether it was the first time she had been raped. “My brain just switched into survival mode. It was either I do what he says, and I get home to my mum, or he is going to kill me.”

The woman said Gift Oladele struck her six times to the head, left a handprint bruise on her body, and afterwards remarked that she had “had enough” and that at least she had been raped by “someone good-looking”.

Gift Oladele threatened to find her if she went to the police and to post photographs of her online. She reached home at about 3.30am, told her parents at once, and her father called the police.

Officers arrested Gift Oladele the next day at a cousin’s house in Wrexham. Gift Oladele tried to hide a mobile phone. The device later showed searches relating to sexual attacks.

Prosecutors told the court Gift Oladele had a fascination with forced sexual abuse. Judge Simon Mills said the language used during the assault was designed to humiliate and was “truly depraved”.

“You subjected her to a terrible violation. You are a dangerous offender,” Judge Simon Mills told Gift Oladele. The judge found an exceptionally high risk of serious harm to young women and said Gift Oladele had shown “absolutely no remorse whatsoever”.

A life sentence was considered “on a knife-edge” and rejected because Gift Oladele was 24 and might still change.

Gift Oladele must serve at least two thirds of the 17-year custodial term before parole can even be considered. An indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a lifelong restraining order were also imposed.

The case did not arise in isolation. In December 2022 Gift Oladele, then 21, was jailed for two years at Manchester Crown Court for the false imprisonment of a woman in Middleton who feared she was about to be raped in daylight.

His Honour Judge Alan Conrad KC called Gift Oladele clever, devious and manipulative and said there was ample material to treat him as dangerous. The Home Office issued a deportation order on 10 January 2023.

Gift Oladele, born in Italy and raised in the United Kingdom from about the age of 11, appealed under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, citing private and family life.

An immigration tribunal later described the decision as finely balanced.

The tribunal accepted a strong public interest in removing foreign criminals after a frightening public assault, yet found that limited ties to Nigeria, a developed private life in Britain, and claimed rehabilitation were just sufficient to outweigh deportation. Two Home Office appeals failed.

Some contemporaneous reporting noted that the department did not attend one hearing in person and relied on written submissions.

At the time of the Wrexham offence Gift Oladele was on bail over a separate rape allegation in Manchester from November 2024. That allegation has not been the subject of a concluded trial reported alongside this sentence.

The woman’s mother later asked where her daughter’s rights had been. “She has the right to walk home after a night out without being raped.” In a victim impact statement read to the court the woman said she was petrified, could no longer go out alone, and felt damaged. Judge Simon Mills thanked her for “exceptional courage during the incident and afterwards.”

Chief Inspector Caroline Mullen-Hurst said Gift Oladele had left a young woman fearing for her life and had shown no remorse after forcing her to relive the attack at trial.

The woman has since described days of hysterical crying and a struggle to eat. The harrowing aftermath, she said, has not ended with the verdict.

The Home Office called the Wrexham case horrific and said it was right that Gift Oladele had been imprisoned.

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Whether a further deportation order will follow the new sentence is a matter for ministers and the courts once the custodial term and licence conditions have run their course.