Man Used Google Translate App to Threaten Woman During Rape

A man who raped a mother at a homeless encampment under a bridge in London used a translation app as he assaulted her. Moustafa Elbohy grabbed his victim’s wrist and dragged her to a ‘dark and dingy’ place near Embankment before launching his attack.

Elbohy, 32, then used Google Translate to tell the woman, ‘I want to f**k you,’ making the victim ‘fearful for her life,’ a court was told. The mother, who cannot be named as a victim of sexual assault, encountered Elbohy and a group of men speaking Arabic while she was travelling home alone following a night out with a friend at a wine bar, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Attack Under Hungerford Bridge

Richard Milne, prosecuting, said the victim recalled being ‘definitely drunk’ at the time but was conscious enough to use a map app to navigate to Embankment station at around 11.30pm. She engaged with the group of men as she was interested in the Arabic language, despite not being able to speak it herself.

The victim was then taken by Elbohy under the Hungerford Bridge, a major Victorian railway viaduct flanked on either side by the pedestrian Golden Jubilee bridges. Mr Milne continued: ‘Her recollection is that there was a wall which, she says, he dragged her over – there were tents that appeared to be tarpaulin-type tents, blue crinkly material, and there were homeless people living there, one of whom in particular looked very unwell lying on the ground.’

Victim Feared for Her Life

Elbohy then took out his phone to translate his explicit Arabic phrases. Described as ‘extremely volatile’, Elbohy caused the woman to become scared, with her resorting to playing nice in order to keep him calm.

‘She knew she was going to be raped, and she just wanted to get it over and done with as quickly as possible,’ Mr Milne added. The woman ‘put her mind in another place as she was ‘pushed to the ground’ by Elbohy during the assault.