School worker jailed for raping pupil, 13

Mikhail Mohammad, of Radford, Nottingham, was convicted of one count of rape after a trial last month.

He also previously pleaded guilty to fraud by failing to disclose a previous conviction.

Yesterday he was jailed at Nottingham Crown Court for 10 years for rape and nine months for the fraud charge.

The court heard Mohammad was previously jailed for 30 months after indecently assaulting a previous partner’s daughter, who was under 14, in 1991.

He changed his name and years later got a job as a member of staff at a school in Nottingham, where he met the 13-year-old.

After befriending her, her mother and sister, he took the girl back to his flat, where he raped her in his bedroom in November last year.

Referring to Mohammad’s original indecent assault conviction, Judge Jonathan Teare told him at Nottingham Crown Court: “That was in November of 1991 and that conviction prohibited you from obtaining work with children, especially at an educational college.”

But he said, in the meantime, Mohammad had changed his name for “perfectly legitimate reasons” and no “sinister” motive, then got the job at a school in Nottingham, where his victim was a pupil.

“For some time before the actual incident of rape, you had told her that you wanted her to go to your flat because you wanted to give her something,” the judge said.

“You were friendly with her mother and her sister and, as a result, when you happened to meet, she said ‘alright’, expecting that it was going to be something entirely harmless and informal.

“You took her back to your house and there in your bedroom you raped her.

He said the girl was 13 at the time.

He said Mohammad had not had the courage to plead guilty and continued to deny the attack.

Sentencing the 45-year-old he said: “The abuse of trust was gross.”

Mohammad was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.