A violent rapist who carried out a series of racially motivated sexual assaults on lone women while on bail has been jailed for life.
Liban Abdi, 28, was on bail for burglary when he groped three women – including one in her 70s – on November 29, 2014.
Five days later unemployed Abdi then repeatedly raped a fourth woman after dragging her into a pub car park.
He was arrested by police investigating the assaults but was given bail a second time
Abdi, of Poplar, east London then went on to attack a fifth woman as she entered her home in Bethnal Green, east London.
Abdi carried out all the sex attacks while on bail for breaking into a woman’s bedroom as she slept and stealing an iPad from the house.
On Thursday, Judge Grace Amakye sentenced him to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 12 years at Snaresbrook Crown Court.