Russians who gang-raped M'sian student filmed attack on their phones

LONDON: Four wealthy Russians who used an iPhone to film themselves gang-raping a Malaysian student at an exclusive private college in London are facing jail terms.

The group had been in Britain for just two weeks when they carried out the horrific two-and-a-half hour attack on the Malaysian teenager at the £30,000-per-year (RM146,000) college.

The Daily Mail reported that the Russians, aged between 19 and 23, gave a sickening running commentary - and even filmed themselves boasting about what they were going to do to the victim the day before the attack.
 The prosecution fear that she may have had her drinks spiked as she was too drunk to consent.

Oleg Ivanov, 23, Norayr Davtyan, 22, Armen Simonyan, 19, and 23-year-old Gregory Melnikov all denied rape but were unanimously convicted by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court yesterday.

Davtyan described the girl as a "machine" and in the witness box referred to her as a "sl**".
The court heard that Ivanov expressed "pity" for the victim when they noticed she was crying but was talked out of it by his friend Davtyan.

Prosecutor Peter Clement said the four watched and encouraged each other during the attack, and gave a running commentary as to what they had done and what they were going to do to their fellow student.
They referred to her merely in the abstract as "her" or "she" and in the course of the incident one of the four even had to ask another, "What's her name?''

International water polo player Davtyan was holding a party at his dorm at the exclusive college in South London on Jan 21 this year which the girl attended. She had a shot of whisky at the party before going to a disco at the school.

Although there is no concrete evidence her drink was spiked, she felt "funny, dizzy and peculiar" and was clearly intoxicated before going back to the party and vomiting, then falling asleep. The next time she awoke, a man was having sex with her but she was unable to move, the jury heard.

She told police: "I just wanted him to stop, I couldn't wake up, I couldn't stand up, I felt really, really, really tired, I couldn't do anything. I couldn't move my hand...
"I just wanted to close my eyes, I just wanted to die, I did not consent to it."

The four men were all unanimously found guilty of rape at Woolwich Crown Court.
They sat emotionless in the dock as the verdicts against them were read out but a cry was heard from the family members in the public gallery.

Davtyan was convicted on two counts of rape, Melnikov was guilty of rape and attempted rape while Ivanov and Simonyan were both convicted of one count of rape.

They were remanded in custody until they are sentenced.