Hate-Fueled Rapist Faces Life Sentence

0:00On April 24, John Ashby, a 32-year-old with no fixed address, is heading to sentencing today at Birmingham Crown Court after pleading guilty. To raping a Sikh woman in her Warsaw home last October, he followed her back, broke in armed with a two-foot stick, and attacked her despite her trying to barricade herself in the bathroom. Earlier this week, on the second day of his trial, Ashby switched his plea and admitted the full charges, including robbery and intentional. The triangulation alongside the religiously aggravated assault. He hurled Islamophobic slurs at her, wrongly assuming she was Muslim. The judge, Mr. Justice Peperol, called Ashby a dangerous stranger for targeting her based on her presumed religion, and he's now weighing a life. Sentence. That would keep him on strict license for life, if ever released, with any slip of sending him right back inside. Court details paint a brutal picture of the home invasion, but Ashby's guilty police spare the woman a full trial testimony. West Midlands police charged him soon after, and today's hearing wraps up the case.

1:03As the gavel falls on this hate-fuel crime, it underscores the real dangers of religious bigotry, mixing with violence. Stay tuned for the final. Sentence details.