A rapist who used emotional blackmail to carry out sickening sex abuse on a teenage girl was jailed for 17 years today.
Mohammed Fakhrul Islam, 33, was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court, east London, after being found guilty of three counts of rape, one of battery and one of voyeurism.
After the third rape he told his victim: "I am so lucky, I am so happy. I am controlling your life."
He began his campaign of abuse two years after meeting the victim in Bangladesh in 2008.
In 2010 the girl, then aged 18, came to the UK to study, and was staying with a relative, police said.
Not knowing anyone in the country she gave her number to Islam believing him to be trustworthy.
They became friends but after a while he became threatening when he saw her talking with other men.
Police said that late in 2010 they met up and Islam took the victim to a friend's house.
Once there he told her she had to have sex with him or he would contact her parents and inform them they were in a relationship and that her reputation would be ruined.
In fear the victim ran to one of her attacker's friends seeking help, but he refused and told her to return to Islam.
He then grabbed her and dragged her into a bedroom and raped her while secretly filming the attack on his mobile phone.
He then told her that if she did not do what he wanted he would tell her family they were having sex, police said.
A week later Islam told the victim they were now in a relationship and could have sex often.
He also told her he had footage of the earlier incident and that if she refused to have sex with him he would show the footage to her family and post it online with her phone number, implying she was a prostitute.
He threatened to kill her if she went out with any other man. He raped her a second time and again recorded it.
In February 2013 the victim began to suffer from serious depression as a result of the ongoing abuse and her studies began to suffer.
Her parents indicated that they were keen for her to marry and when she told Islam he flew into a rage, demanding she come to his house and saying he would ruin her life if she refused to do so.
The victim went to Islam's house in east London where he raped her before telling her: "I am so lucky; I am so happy. I am controlling your life."
Later, when she refused to go home with him after a shift at work he attacked her and her colleague - strangling her and assaulting the colleague with a set of keys - before fleeing the scene.
After being convinced by her colleague to report the matter the victim found the courage to report the mental and sexual abuse she had been subjected to.
In March last year, Islam was arrested and later charged.
Detective Constable Caroline Horden, from the Metropolitan Police's Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, said: "The victim has shown great strength of character, she found the courage to come forward and speak about her terrible ordeal and because of this a very dangerous individual has been brought to justice."
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