Dennis Mandzikwa (52) will serve an extra four years on
licence. He will serve two-thirds of the custodial element of the sentence
before he is considered for parole. He was also made subject to a restraining
order, a sexual harm prevention order, and ordered to sign the s.ex offenders'
register indefinitely.
Mandzikwa met the woman on Facebook and travelled from his
home in Oxford to Cardiff. He raped her as she held her sleeping baby. He refused
to "take no for an answer" and the victim had to call a neighbour
before he stopped.
According to Wales Online, the victim said the rapist
failed to treat her as a human being and the memory of the attacks will
"stay with her forever". A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court
was told Mandzikwa bombarded the victim, who has lifelong anonymity, with
messages until she agreed for him to visit her home in Cardiff last year.
In mitigation Stephen Donnelly said his client had a
"troubled background" in Zimbabwe and experienced trauma as a younger
man due to family circumstances. He said the defendant has two children and was
worried about "losing their trust and respect". The barrister said
the Mandzikwa "suffered a sense of shame" and was unable to face
members of his church.
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