Westfield attacker gets ten and a half years

A 15-year-old girl sobbed in court as the rapist who attacked her in flowerbeds at Westfield shopping centre was jailed for ten-and-a-half years. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was separated from her friends after drinking heavily at the Bat and Ball bar in Westfield, Stratford, on 4 September last year. Rufat Kasamaj, 36, and over twice his victim’s age, picked her up and steered her to flowerbeds outside the shopping centre before sexually attacking her. The…