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SULEMAN MUKAISH
Age 27 · WORTHING, WEST SUSSEX
Case and court outcome
- Case reference
- O-9251
- Verdict
- Guilty plea entered
- Sentence type
- Immediate custody
Verified case summary
This man, Suleman Mukaish, is twenty-seven and from Cambridge Road in Worthing.
Sussex Police said a vulnerable woman was raped in a Lyndhurst Road car park on the eleventh of March twenty twenty-six.
A witness saw what was happening and contacted police, allowing officers to begin an immediate investigation.
Mukaish was identified as the suspect.
Two days later, officers arrested him at Gatwick Airport while he had a one-way ticket.
He pleaded guilty to rape at court on the thirteenth of April.
Hove Crown Court sentenced him on the twenty-third of June to eleven years and three months in prison.
His guilty plea came one month after the attack and just weeks after his arrest at Gatwick.
Sussex Police thanked the witness whose intervention helped bring the attack to an end and supported the investigation.