Komar Uddin

A pretend imam who raped a vulnerable 19-year-old under the guise of “spiritual healing” has been jailed for 15 years.

Komar Uddin, 68, from Bangladesh, claimed to have worked in mosques across England. A jury at Leicester Crown Court convicted him of two rapes and three sexual assaults against the teenager in her own home.

Uddin was invited to the family’s Leicester home on February 25, 2015, supposedly to drive out evil spirits. He sexually attacked the teenager during a candlelit ceremony in her bedroom while her trusting father and relatives remained downstairs.

Despite denying the offences, Uddin’s DNA was found on internal examination swabs, providing evidence that intercourse had taken place.

After his arrest, Uddin fled Britain while on bail and was later extradited from Germany to face trial.

Sentencing him, Judge Timothy Spencer QC condemned him as “a fraud, a charlatan and a disgrace to your religion” and described him as breathtakingly selfish. The married father-of-11 also admitted being in Britain illegally.