Nightclub bouncers are jailed for raping woman after she got drunk at work Christmas party

• The pair targeted the woman at a Wolverhampton nightclub in December 2018
• Iyoseph Derry was found guilty of rape and aiding and abetting rape after trial
• Hassan Bockarie, from Birmingham, was convicted of one count of rape
• Derry was jailed for ten years and Bockarie sentenced to eight and a half years 

Two nightclub bouncers have been jailed for raping a vulnerable woman after she had got drunk at a work Christmas party.

Iyoseph Derry, 33, and Hassan Bockarie, 34, met the victim, who had been with her sister, in Banjul Nightclub, on Queen Street, Wolverhampton, on December 15, 2018.

Judge Dean Kershaw told the court Derry raped the victim in a car, before she was taken to Bockarie’s flat where Bockarie ‘raped her and Derry encouraged him’.  

Derry, of no fixed address, was jailed for ten years after he was found guilty of rape and aiding and abetting rape following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court. 

Bockarie, 34, of Erdington, Birmingham, who was convicted of one count of rape, was sentenced to eight and a half years in jail. 

Iyoseph Derry, 33, of no fixed address, was jailed for ten years after he was found guilty of rape and aiding and abetting rape following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court

Hassan Bockarie, 34, of Erdington, Birmingham, who was convicted of one count of rape, was sentenced to eight and a half years in jail

In a statement the victim said the incident has left her worried, no longer wanting to go out, and on edge at all times.

She said she is no longer the ‘bubbly’ person she was and had suffered several breakdowns.

Passing sentence, Judge Kershaw told the pair: ‘Both of you took advantage of a woman who was, on that night, friendly, outgoing and amenable.

‘She was entitled to feel safe. You both saw she was drunk and getting more and more so as the night went on.

‘You targeted her for that reason.’

Judge Kershaw said Derry had made a sexually explicit comment and ‘Bockarie found that comment funny and reacted by laughing’. 

The judge said that, by their behaviour, the defendants had brought into disrepute the reputation of doormen.

Rob Cowley, mitigating for Derry, said there was no evidence he had provided alcohol to ‘facilitate the offence’.

He said Derry’s partner had stood by him despite the charges and that ‘there was another side to him’.

The victim had been at a work Christmas party in Banjul Nightclub, on Queen Street, Wolverhampton, on December 15, 2018

Graham Henson, mitigating for Bockarie, said: ‘It is an unpleasant aspect, there were two defendants, but it was not a gang rape.’

Mr Henson said his client had no relevant recent convictions and did not have anything to do with what happened in the car. 

Judge Kershaw said they had acted with their own sexual gratification in mind.

He added: ‘This was a sustained incident and she was particularly vulnerable because of her personal circumstances.

‘Effectively she was a stranger to both of you and she was taken to an area she was unfamiliar with.

‘Both of you planned to take her in the car and back to the flat and have sexual intercourse with either one or both of you.’ 

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