In 2021, a man was found guilty of the rape and manslaughter of a woman he repeatedly orally raped in Southall Park, west London.
Mohamed Nour Aidoo, 35, was accused by Natalie Shotter, a 37-year-old mother of three, who was found dead on a London park bench by a passerby in the early hours of the 16th. He was convicted of raping and murdering a man. July 2021. Aidoo's DNA was found in the dead woman's mouth, and CCTV footage showed him “orally raping” her repeatedly for “more than 15 minutes.”
Shotter, who was 5 feet tall and weighed just 95 pounds at the time of his death, had been out partying with friends before the attack. The woman's death has been the subject of a campaign for justice by her mother, a doctor, who says the vulnerable woman's pleas for help from police were rejected by indifferent officers.
Prosecutor Alison Morgan said CCTV footage shown in court of Ms Aidoo attacking Mr Shotter showed her drinking alcohol and drugs while partying with friends and lying on a park bench, “drowsy and unconscious.'' I was in a daze,” he said. Still, even if she had those substances in her system, prosecutors say toxicology reports show she would not have died from them had she not been assaulted. She said it was her position.
Eadow told the court that he was “walking up and down the street at night” because he was “looking for women who were going to be raped” and that the shotter approached him from behind and touched his “groin area”. . Prosecutor Morgan said: “He took his penis out of his cargo shorts, grabbed Natalie by the head and positioned his head so that he could put his penis in her mouth… Her head tipped back slightly. The defendant is now standing in front of her and pulls her head towards his crotch, but when she is not supported, her head falls back.
court news record Jurors cried and looked away as footage of Eadow raping Shotter in the mouth was played into the room.
Morgan summed it up this way: [his] When she was unconscious, he shoved his penis down her throat and pounded her, overstimulating the nerves at the back of her throat and causing cardiac arrest. ”
Commenting on the conviction, Chief Inspector Wayne Jolly said: “Ido's predatory attack on Natalie was disturbing and shocking… Even after his arrest, Ido attempted to maintain that his actions were consensual.” Officers said they consulted “diligent experts” to prove that Shotter's death was the result of rape. In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “While examining CCTV footage from the night of the attack, detectives observed Ido repeatedly walk past Natalie before approaching her and repeatedly raping her.” said. He then left her on the bench and drove home. ”
In order to avoid the manslaughter charge, Ms. Ido's lawyer argued that Ms. Shotter was actually already dead before she was raped, but the jury rejected this idea and found her guilty of manslaughter and rape. did.
Shotter's mother, cardiologist Dr. Cass Shotter Wheatman, sought immunity from helping her daughter even though police had been alerted to her being in critical condition the night she died. criticized that. As previously reported, the Independent Office for Police Conduct had been contacted about the campaign for justice for a daughter who said she had been badly let down by police, but that the Metropolitan Police could launch its own investigation into the matter. I decided.
BBC Reported in 2022:”[a] Her friend told nearby police officers that she was unwell and needed help, but they refused… She was then assaulted before her body was discovered… The Metropolitan Police Department said after an internal investigation. It said the officers' actions were found to “not amount to illegal activity.”
Mr Eadoh, who faces a possible custodial sentence, has already been convicted of online sex offenses and is due to be sentenced in December.
