PhD student Zhenhao Zou, 27, was at University College London when he was accused of carrying out 11 rapes on unconscious woman stupefied with a cocktail of drugs.
A Chinese ‘sexual predator’ allegedly raped ten women after plying them with drink and drugs until they were unconscious so he could film the attacks, a court heard today.
Zou is accused of filming himself attacking two victims in London and another eight women at an unknown location in China between September 2019 and May 2023. The defendant first came to the UK in September 2017 to study at Queen’s University in Belfast before going on to do a master’s degree at University College London from 2019 to 2021, followed by a PhD at the same university from 2021.
‘Often, he would record himself doing so and you will be shown several recordings during this trial which the prosecution say are the defendant’s souvenirs of many rapes that he had committed; items that he kept for his own private sexual gratification, so that he could watch, at his leisure, his rapes of these women, who he had rendered unconscious and totally vulnerable to his will.’
The victim recalled screaming and crying as she attempted to flee but Zou dragged her back by her clothes into his bedroom, it was said. The prosecutor said: ‘She tells the defendant to let go of her. She asks the defendant not to restrain her and tells him that he is controlling her.
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