A man who raped and sexually exploited young women and teenage girls he met online has been jailed for seven years. Roland Lamin, 31, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court after being found guilty of five offences.
Lamin raped one victim 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.
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.'
The 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. Lamin first came to their attention during a separate inquiry, and the Metropolitan Police later alerted officers in Wiltshire Police that he had been in contact with a teenage girl in their area.
Following his arrest, his phone was analysed and further victims, aged 17 and 18, were identified. Officers discovered 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 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 subject to a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years after his release.
