A surveillance camera captured the horrifying moment when a student took an unconscious young woman home in his arms to rape her.
Preet Vikal, 20, first took a “trophy photo” of the victim lying in bed before attacking him, the Chron learned.
The engineering student sometimes carried the young girl in her arms, sometimes on her shoulders, into her room – after meeting her “completely drunk” outside a concert hall in Cardiff, UK.
Prosecutor Matthew Cobbe said Mr Vikal and the victim, who did not know each other, went out with various groups of friends on the night of June 3 last year.
“The victim had been drinking too much and was obviously in an intoxicated state by the end of the night,” he said.
The victim’s memories are vague, but she knew that she and her friends had started drinking at their home before going to a bar.
She could not sit up straight and had difficulty speaking. At one point she fell in the women’s room.
A man who first helped her picked up the young woman’s phone to warn her friends not to leave her alone in her condition.
The victim then left the bar with her friends.
Outside, however, she ran into Preet Vikal, an engineering student who had been drinking at the venue.
Vikal joined the victim’s group as they walked down a street. He and the victim then prevailed over the rest of the group.
South Wales Police shared the horrific video of Preet carrying the victim in his arms and then on his shoulders.
Vikal took the victim to her bedroom and took what the prosecutor called a “trophy picture” of her on her bed.
Although the victim wasn’t naked, the photo was revealing. The victim did not remember the rape, but she did remember waking up naked next to the young man in his bed.
“She was bleeding… She found her clothes folded and got up and dressed,” Mr Cobbe said.
In the morning the victim asked for the defendant’s Instagram address and after she left she texted him asking if they had had sex and if so if they were protected.
Mr. Vikal replied that although they had had sex, they had not taken any protection.
On the same day, the victim reported his attacker to the police, who arrested him.
The next day, he issued a statement that the victim “consented.”
However, Mr Cobbe said it was clear the victim was too intoxicated to consent to the sex.
The defendant initially pleaded not guilty before finally admitting the rape on the day of the trial.
For five months, the victim would not go out at night and said she still felt guilty about the incident.
“I have a boyfriend now and every little thing needed to be discussed… even little things like putting his hand on my leg,” she explained.
Mr Vikal was committed to a juvenile delinquent facility for a period of six years and nine months. He will serve two-thirds of his sentence in custody and the rest on probation.