John Ashby, a man from the UK who raped a Sikh woman after wrongly believing she was Muslim, has been given a life sentence. Ashby, who admitted his crimes earlier in the week, was sentenced on Friday.During sentencing at Birmingham Crown Court, Mr Justice Pepperall described Ashby as a “deeply
John Ashby, a man from the UK who raped a Sikh woman after wrongly believing she was Muslim, has been given a life sentence. Ashby, who admitted his crimes earlier in the week, was sentenced on Friday.During sentencing at Birmingham Crown Court, Mr Justice Pepperall described Ashby as a “deeply unpleasant racist and Islamophobe”, as reported by the BBC.The attack took place in October 2025, when Ashby followed the woman, who was in her 20s and unknown to him, after she got off a bus. He tracked her to her home in Walsall and entered the property carrying a stick he had picked up from the ground.Once inside, he assaulted her, striking her with the stick and attempting to strangle her before forcing her into the bathroom, where he raped her. During the
