Delivery driver gets seven years for assaulting unconscious woman

A delivery driver who assaulted an unconscious woman in bedroom after they met at a pizza restaurant has been jailed for seven years.

Albanian Klodjan Samurri, 29, attacked the victim after meeting her during an evening out in Holloway, north London on 26 June 2021.

She told the Old Bailey she went to bed and awoke to find Samurri having sex with her.

Samurri denied two charges of rape. He was found guilty of the first count but cleared of the other.

The jury reached its verdict after deliberating for four hours and 13 minutes.

Prosecutor Katrina Charles earlier told the court the victim had been out with a group of friends.

She said: ‘They ate, they left between 11 and 12.

‘They walked home and walked past another Italian restaurant familiar to two of the girls as they regularly ordered pizza from that restaurant.

‘In passing the owner recognised them and was friendly.’

He introduced them to three other males, one of which was Samurri.

‘There was space outside, it’s June, so they sat outside chatting and had some more drinks, a cigarette, they were all friendly,’ Ms Charles said.

‘They talked about moving on and continuing the party, and agreed to go back to one of their flats.

‘It was made clear to the males that while they were invited to come over, they couldn’t stay the night, they would have to leave at some point. Boundaries were set.

‘By this stage the complainant was feeling particularly drunk. She just wanted to get home.

‘At this point while it is clear the other two girls were pairing up with two of the males, the complainant just wants to head home and the defendant is in effect a third wheel, standing apart from everyone else.

‘When they got back to the flat the complainant took herself off to bed. She put her eye mask on, the lights went off and she was out for the count. Her friends recall her words were slurred.’

One of the women saw Samurri go into the victim’s room and ask if she was okay.

Ms Charles said: ‘She told him not to go in her friend’s bedroom because she was asleep. It was made clear to him that he was not to go inside this bedroom with the lights out and a woman inside sleeping.’

One of the women later noticed the victim’s bedroom light was on.

Ms Charles said: ‘She opened the door, went in and saw the defendant climbing off the complainant’s bed. He was clothed but he was buttoning up his jeans.

‘She could see the complaint wasn’t wearing a top. When she had been in earlier she had been wearing pyjamas.’

The woman asked her friend if she was okay and asked Samurri if he had had permission to have sex with her and he responded ‘yeah, yeah, all good’ and ushered her out of the bedroom.

Thirty minutes later two of the women went back in to check and saw him buttoning his jeans up again.

‘It was clear the complainant was completely out of it. They asked her whether she had wanted to have sex with the defendant, and she managed to tell them she had asked him to leave repeatedly,’ Ms Charles said.

‘The defendant insisted that the sexual intercourse had been consensual.

‘She doesn’t recall the defendant coming into her room, there came a point where she woke up to him having intercourse with her.

‘She was drifting in and out of consciousness and felt slow to respond but does recall telling him to stop and get off her.

‘She also recalls him behind her attempting anal intercourse and then penetrating her anus with his penis before managing to push him off her then said no.

‘He was wrapping her arms around her when having sex with her making her feel constrained.’

Samurri, of Knebworth Avenue, Walthamstow, denied two charges of rape, claiming the woman consented to sex.

He was convicted of one charge of rape but cleared of the second one.

The judge, Mr Recorder Bernard Richmond, KC, said: ‘You targeted a woman in her own bed…have caused her to leave her home and this was in every single way an invasion of her privacy.

‘Perhaps you will reflect on what it was that caused you to behave in this appalling way, but what you did was harmful, disgusting and appalling and every right thinking member of this community would agree.’

Samurri, of Knebworth Avenue, Walthamstow, denied two counts of rape, but was convicted of one.

He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and will be subject to sexual offences notification requirements.

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