An international rugby player has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for raping a woman at her flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ugandan winger Philip Pariyo, 32, played at the Commonwealth Games in 2014 – but claimed asylum in Britain with the claim that he was gay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He went missing after the tournament and failed to return to Africa alleging he would be persecuted in Uganda for being homosexual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But he later had a pregnant girlfriend living in Cardiff and went on to rape another woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A court heard Pariyo – who worked as a binman for Cardiff Council – repeatedly ‘badgered’ his victim for sex before forcing himself upon her in June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He then went with her to buy the morning-after pill the following day and asked to her buy condoms so they could have sex again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pariyo denied rape but was found guilty following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a victim impact statement, the woman said: ‘No one in the world should go through what I did, fighting and begging for my life. It has left lasting impacts on me, and has felt like an open wound that I can never heal from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘It’s made me feel dirty, numb and tainted. He invaded my body by force and branded me from within. He became an unwanted part of my body that I can’t get rid of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘No one should fight like their life depends on it for something as simple as consent.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judge Celia Hughes told him: ‘Someone with your physical strength and who played at such a high level in your sport should act as a role model to others. But instead you manhandled this woman as entirely as you wished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘You pleaded not guilty even though you admitted having sex in your text messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘She will never be the same strong confident woman she was before she came to Cardiff to see you, because of your sexual greed.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pariyo disappeared after Commonwealth Games in 2014 before being found playing for a small rugby club in Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He went missing after the closing ceremony in Glasgow, infuriating the Ugandan sports minister who vowed: ‘We shall find them and make sure they return home.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After slipping away from his teammates, Pariyo, who played in the African nation’s Sevens team at the Games, eventually moved into a hotel that was housing asylum seekers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The following February he was discovered playing for St Peter’s RFC in Cardiff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The court heard his asylum status would be ‘adversely affected’ by his sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Editor’s Note :First Published by Daily Mail (UK)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Editor:msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An international rugby player has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for raping a woman at her flat. 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