Three Albanian men gang-raped a woman after one of them kidnapped her from outside a nightclub on her first night out after Covid restrictions were eased.
Gatekeepers News reports that the 23-year-old victim had been out for an evening meal with a friend and then went to Vogue nightclub on Bedford High Street where she was approached by Gemti Hyka, but she walked away with her friend.
The victim and her friend attempted to leave the club in the early hours of September 4 last year but became separated when they walked in opposite directions to avoid a group of men fighting in the street outside, the jury was told.
As the victim walked home alone she was grabbed by Hyka and bundled into his car before he drove to a garage and then a house, where he raped her.
According to the Jury, two of his friends, Vullnet Haka and Ibrahim Bezati, later arrived at the address, raped her, slapped her and forced her to take cocaine.
Hyka was found guilty of kidnap, false imprisonment and two charges of rape. He was cleared of two other charges of rape.
Haka, 33, and Bezati, 36, were found guilty of false imprisonment and two charges of rape of the woman. The jury cleared them of two other charges of rape.
The victim told the court she had no memory of leaving the club in the early hours of the morning but said, while at Hyka’s address, she went into ‘survival mode.’
Luton Crown Court heard the victim had desperately tried to signal for help to other people she passed in the car but no one responded.
The woman told the court: ‘I begged them to let me go. I was confused and scared.’
She said she would never agree to leave with someone she did not know and said she did not agree to have sex or sexual activity with anyone.
The victim eventually managed to escape the house and sought assistance from passers-by before calling the friend she had been with earlier in the night, at around 7.30am that day, the court heard.
