Small boat migrant found guilty of raping woman in tent after threatening her through translation app

Moustafa Elbohy, 32, has been found guilty of two counts of rape after a woman was attacked in a tent at a homeless encampment beneath Hungerford Bridge in London. The case matters because the court heard how he used a translation app to communicate a threat before taking her to the encampment.

The woman had met Elbohy and other men near Embankment station after a night out with work colleagues on 20 September 2025. Prosecutors said he used Google Translate to tell her he wanted to have sex with her, then dragged her over a wall and into a tent; she said she feared him and tried to calm him. Elbohy, an Egyptian national who arrived in the UK by small boat in June 2025 and had an asylum claim refused, denied the charges and said the sex was consensual. He is due to be sentenced on 17 November.