Teenager guilty of raping woman in beach toilet
Mohammed Abdullah will be sentenced to prison on July 3 [Dorset Police]
A teenager was found guilty of raping a woman in a portable toilet.
Mohammed Abdullah, 19, was found guilty of rape and assault by penetration after attacking the 19-year-old on Bournemouth beach in the early hours of July 6, 2025.
Abdullah, of West Drayton, west London, had denied the charges, claiming the sex was consensual, but was convicted following a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.
Judge Robert Pawson remanded him in custody until sentencing on July 3.
Pawson told Abdullah: “Under unfortunate circumstances you crossed paths on July 5th and 6th as you were coming from London with a group of young men. [with the victim].
“He had had too much to drink, it was late at night, he was on Bournemouth beach and you decided to take advantage of it on a whim.
“You deliberately took it up the beach to Portaloos, in my judgment you knew it was there and they were open.
“You locked her in Portaloo and raped her.”
Prosecutor Mark Eldridge told the hearing the woman had been out with a friend in Charminster before heading to Bar So in Bournemouth.
He said after drinking a “fair amount of drink” he and his friend went in different directions and the woman began walking home from the beach.
Abdullah offered to take the woman home on his bike before attacking her [BBC]
There he met the defendant, who was with his friends, and offered him a ride home on his e-bike.
They stopped at the portable toilet where Abdullah sexually assaulted and raped her.
Abdullah then rode away while the woman “took off her shoes to run,” Eldridge said.
She asked for help from passersby who wanted to use their phones to call her mother before calling the police.
Eldridge said a man helping him described him as “looking distressed.”
Det Insp Shaun Inkpen, of Dorset Police’s Major Crime Investigation Team (MCIT), praised the woman for the “bravery she showed” in reporting the assault and her “support and resilience throughout the investigation and justice process”.
“This was crucial for the attacker to be held accountable for his despicable actions that night,” he said.
“I hope the courage he showed gives other victims of rape and sexual crime the strength to come forward knowing that they will be supported and that we will do everything we can to identify and prosecute perpetrators of such serious crimes.”
Abdullah arrived in the UK from Syria in 2023 and was granted permanent leave under the family reunification scheme.
