Man pleads guilty to religiously aggravated rape and assault of Sikh woman in Walsall

John Ashby, 32, has pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to the religiously aggravated rape and assault of a Sikh woman in Walsall .

Extracts from body-worn police footage showing the woman, who cannot be identified, were played to a jury of six men and six women on Tuesday, during which she was comforted by a female officer and said her attacker had called her a “bloody Muslim b***h”.

The woman, said by witnesses to have been hysterical while repeatedly screaming, told police she had been raped in a bathroom by the intruder, who was armed with a piece of wood and claimed to be a “British master”.

In a video interview played to the court, the complainant told police: “He had a stick in his hand.

I said ‘who are you’ and I started screaming.

“He switched off the light.

He said ‘I just want fun with you’.

He said ‘you are a f****** Muslim b***h, I said I am not a Muslim, I am a Sikh.”