Rapist jailed for racist attack on Sikh woman he thought was Muslim

A man has been jailed for life after pleading guilty to the religiously-aggravated rape and assault of a Sikh woman, who he believed to be Muslim.

John Ashby, who’s 32 and of no fixed abode, attacked the victim after spotting her travelling on the bus.

He followed her for around ten minutes, with some distance between them.

CCTV then picked up a scream from inside the woman’s house.

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