Three jailed over rape attack filmed on mobile phone

Three men from Oxford have been jailed for sexually assaulting a woman in an attack which only came to light when the victim saw footage of it on a mobile phone.

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Mohammed Shahjahan, 27, was jailed for eight-and-a-half years for rape at Oxford Crown Court.

Nicholas Jones, 26, who took the footage, will serve three-and-a-half years for sexual assault and voyeurism.

Feizal Ali, 26, was jailed for three years for sexual assault.

All three will be put on the sex offenders register for life.

'Sickening' act

The court heard the woman only discovered she had been raped and sexually assaulted two weeks after the attack, which happened in November last year, when Jones showed her the footage.

Prosecutors said the woman passed out at a flat in east Oxford after drinking three vodka and Red Bull cocktails and did not remember the assault.

Feizal Ali arriving at a previous court hearing

Feizal Ali had denied the attack

The court was told the woman had been "incapable of consent".

Jones, of White Road, pleaded guilty to two sexual assault charges and voyeurism.

Shahjahan, of Slaymaker Close, and Ali, of Howard Street, were both found guilty last month.

Det Insp Simon Morton, from Thames Valley Police, said: "The victim's courage, strength and determination has been incredible, I just hope for her, the justice system has worked and that she can now start to move on with her life.

"This has been a long investigation by numerous officers, including the serious sexual offences unit, into a truly sickening incident, which came to light after it was discovered the offences had been filmed by the men.

"It's really important that this sends the message to victims out there of sexual offences that we will do our utmost to thoroughly investigate sexual offences and bring offenders to justice."

Sex movie worm spreads news

Sex movie worm spreads worldwide

A booby-trapped e-mail that promises free sex movies is racking up victims around the world, warn security firms.

Some variants of the Windows worm contain a link to PDF that a recipient has been told to expect.

Those clicking on the link get neither movies nor documents but give the malware access to their entire Outlook address book.

The worm spreads using tricks pioneered by worms such as the ILoveYou virus

When installed, the worm sends copies of itself to every e-mail address it can find.

The malicious e-mail messages have a subject line saying "Here you have" and contain a weblink that looks like it connects to a PDF document. Instead it actually links to a website hosting the malware.

Once it is installed, the worm tries to delete security software so it remains undetected.

As well as spreading via e-mail, the worm also tries to find victims by looking for open net links from infected PCs and exploiting the Windows Autorun feature on USB drives and other attached media.

Although not widespread, reports suggest that some corporations were hit hard by it. Nasa, AIG, Disney, Procter & Gamble and Wells Fargo were all reported as struggling to contain an outbreak of the worm.

At these firms, e-mail inboxes were flooded with hundreds of copies of the e-mail messages bearing the malicious link.

Efforts to contain the virus were aided late on 9 September when the website hosting the worm was shut down. However, security firms expect new variants of the worm to turn up.

Security firm Kaspersky said the worm had some similarities to viruses such as the ILoveYou bug by exploiting Outlook address books.

"The difference with those earlier attacks is that the e-mails typically carried the malicious file itself and didn't rely on a link to a downloading site," wrote Dennis Fisher in an analysis on the Kaspersky Threat Post blog.

"But the technique used to entice users to click on the attachment or malicious link is the same: offer the user something he wants to see," he wrote.