A man who raped and sexually exploited young women and teenage girls he met online has been jailed for seven years. Roland Lamin, 31, raped one of his victims in his car after meeting her on the dating app Tinder.
He also plied two other girls with alcohol before sexually assaulting them. In another incident he attempted to groom a 16-year-old on Instagram. Lamin, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court after being found guilty of five offences.
Det Con Tracy Sparrow, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: 'Roland Lamin is a predator who used social media to identify and target his victims. He displayed a truly disturbing pattern of behaviour, which has left his victims with long term psychological trauma.'
Lamin's sentence was the culmination of a three-year inquiry by detectives from Avon and Somerset Police's specialist child criminal and sexual exploitation investigation team. He first came to their attention during the course of a separate inquiry.
Following his arrest, his phone was analysed and further victims, aged 17 and 18, were identified. Officers went on to discover Lamin had met a 14-year-old girl in a park in breach of an interim sexual risk order and had attempted to groom a 16-year-old girl on Instagram.
Lamin was found guilty of one count of rape, two counts of sexual assault, one count of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child and one count of breaching an interim sexual risk order. He will be the subject of a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years after he is released.
