John Ashby, 32, has pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to the religiously aggravated rape and assault of a Sikh woman in Walsall.
Prosecutors said Ashby, of no fixed abode, attacked the victim in Walsall in October after following her off a bus and entering her home while she was upstairs.
Jurors saw the man confront John Ashby, who originally denied raping a Sikh woman he wrongly believed was a Muslim, on the second day of the 32-year-old’s trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Extracts from body-worn police footage showing the woman, who cannot be identified, were played to a jury of six men and six women on Tuesday, during which she was comforted by a female officer and said her attacker had called her a “bloody Muslim b***h”.
The woman, said by witnesses to have been hysterical while repeatedly screaming, told police she had been raped in a bathroom by the intruder, who was armed with a piece of wood and claimed to be a “British master”.
In a video interview played to the court, the complainant told police: “He had a stick in his hand. I said ‘who are you’ and I started screaming.
“He switched off the light. He said ‘I just want fun with you’. He said ‘you are a f****** Muslim b***h, I said I am not a Muslim, I am a Sikh.”
