A family in Wrexham has been left grappling with the aftermath of a violent attack on their daughter, after she arrived home in the early hours telling her parents she had just been raped by a man who had offered to walk her home.
The 20-year-old, who has remained anonymous, described going straight to her parents the moment she got in, at around 3:30am, prompting her father to call the police. "I felt numb. I was hysterical. My brain couldn't figure out what had just happened," she said of that moment.
The attack happened on September 7, 2025, when Gift Oladele, then 24, approached her as she walked home and told her he was heading in the same direction before offering to accompany her, according to an account published by the Daily Mail on Wednesday.
She said that once they reached an isolated area, he grabbed her by the mouth and dragged her into the woods.
"He was a lot bigger than I was – I tried pushing him away, but he overpowered me," she said. "He was covering my mouth. I was trying to get his arm off me, but he wasn't budging. That's when he r@ped me violently."
She said she feared for her life throughout the ordeal, especially after Oladele asked her a chilling question mid-att@ck.
"My brain just switched into survival mode – it was weird. It was either I do what he says, and I get home to my mum, or he is going to k!ll me," she said.
The woman said Oladele struck her six times in the head and left bruises across her body, and recalled the disturbing remark he made as he left her.
"When he finished, he turned around and said, 'I think you've had enough now. At least you have been r@ped by someone good-looking,'" she said.
He also allegedly threatened to hunt her down and post photographs of her online if she went to the police.
Oladele was arrested the next day at his cousin's home in Wrexham, where police found he had tried to hide a mobile phone that later revealed searches relating to s3xual attacks.
He was sentenced to 17 years in prison in April after being convicted of rape and s3xual assault.
For the victim's family, the case has raised painful questions about why Oladele, a Nigerian citizen born in Italy, remained in the country at all.
He had previously fought off deportation after an earlier conviction, appealing because removal would breach his right to private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
An immigration tribunal ruled in his favour, finding deportation disproportionate, and two subsequent Home Office appeals were both rejected.
The victim's mother said she could not understand the ruling.
"Where are my daughter's rights? That's what I want to know. She has the right to walk home after a night out without being r@ped," she said.
Wrexham Chief Inspector Caroline Mullen-Hurst described Oladele as "a dang3rous predator" and praised the young woman for her courage in coming forward, noting the additional toll the trial itself had taken on her.
"He demonstrated no remorse for his crimes after forcing her to relive the traumatic experience through a trial," she said.
The woman said the attack has continued to haunt her long after that night, affecting her ability to eat and her mental well-being.
"There were numerous times a day when I would be hysterically crying because I didn't want to be here anymore," she said.
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