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Student who drugged and raped 10 women is jailed for life
A Chinese PhD student found guilty of drugging and raping 10 women has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years.
Warning: This article contains details of sexual offences Zhenhao Zou, 28, was convicted of multiple sexual assaults on women in the UK and China in March, where he used drugs to incapacitate his victims before raping them. The trial at Inner London Crown Court heard how he used the drug butanediol to render his victims unconscious, and how he used hidden cameras to record nine of his assaults.
Jurors found him guilty of 11 counts of rape against 10 women between 2019 and 2023. Three of these women were raped in London and seven in China.
Zou was sentenced to 24 years in prison, but because of time served, he will serve at least 22 years and 227 days before being eligible for parole in 2048. Sentencing Zou at Inner London Crown Court on Thursday, Judge Rosina Cottage told him he was a "very bright man" who used a manipulative "charming mask" to hide that he is a "sexual predator".
The judge said Zou "planned and executed a campaign of rape.
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