Judge waits for new psychiatric report before sentencing man who raped woman with Down Syndrome

The judge sentencing Faisal Ellahi for the rape of a young woman with Down Syndrome has said that the victim has had her whole life upended by the attack.

At a sentencing hearing today, Padraig Dwyer SC, defending, submitted to Mr Justice Tony Hunt that he didn't know if the effects of the offence on the victim in this case was worse than that in other rape cases.