A RAPIST who subjected two wom-en to violent sex attacks has been jailed for 12 years and branded a danger to females in Jersey.
Nacer Eddine Benyoucef (37), pictured, attacked his first victim as she lay unconscious on his bed, and raped the second while repeatedly beating and trying to strangle her.
A probation report compiled after his conviction found that he posed a ‘significant risk of harm to the female public’ and that ‘any woman known even vaguely by the defendant was a potential victim’.
And today the JEP can reveal that Benyoucef could have faced a much higher sentence if a previous conviction for indecent assault had not been quashed by the Court of Appeal.
In 2004 he was convicted at an Assize trial on a charge of indecent assault and grave and criminal assault for attacking a 21-year-old woman in St Helier. The court heard in 2004 that he followed her through the streets after a night out and pushed her to the ground before punching her and trying to rip off her clothes.
He was jailed for two years, but the convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal which ruled that the Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache, had not summed up properly to jurors.
Benyoucef was therefore sentenced yesterday on the basis that he was a ‘man of good character’.
