Blame Gordon Brown for this, his government allowed this scum into our country, one of the only three EU countries to do so...

Rape victim who suffered so Romanian could be sent to 'cushy' British prison relives her ordeal

She desperately wanted his support, but thought he'd be disgusted by her. 'I worried he'd never be able to look at me the same way again,' she says quietly. 'I thought he'd think it was my fault.'

Shame stopped Louise telling her parents, too. So on the evening she was violently raped, robbed and half-strangled, this 21-year-old went home alone, cried, bathed and tried to shake off the lingering horror of the brutal attack.

It was the disgust she felt towards herself that convinced her how other people would react.

Thankfully, she couldn't have been more wrong. When they found out, her family and friends reacted with sympathy and support. Everyone was appalled by the hideous assault.

Everyone, that is, except for the perpetrator, Ali Majlat. He was absolutely delighted. Now he would get exactly what he wanted: a lengthy custodial sentence in a British prison.

For, in a twist that cannot fail to spark shock and outrage, Majlat, 35, had travelled all the way from his native Romania with that one goal in mind.

The inspiration for this staggering act of calculated brutality? His older brother, Dominic, who had written to him from HMP Wakefield, West Yorkshire, saying how much he was enjoying his stay. 

Dominic had boasted of having not only his own TV, but a wealth of computer games, food, bed and free English lessons  -  a sad indictment of how our jails are viewed as cushy throughout the world. 

For Ali, poverty-stricken and illiterate, such a place sounded glorious. He hatched a plan to commit a jail-worthy offence and hopped on a bus to Britain. 

His choice of crime was easy  -  after all, it was a charge of rape and attempted murder that had bestowed on his brother a lifetime of free lodgings and luxury extras.

And the obvious location was Wakefield, from where Majlat assumed he would be taken to live with Dominic.

It would be like the orphanage they grew up in together, only with perks.

When Louise, a local care assistant, walked on to the southbound platform of Wakefield Kirkgate railway station one Sunday evening last October  -  to wait for a train home after seeing friends  -  she thought the man who was waiting there seemed a little strange.

'He looked a bit creepy  -  he was very dirty and holding two large yellow carrier bags.

'He was standing smoking by the timetable and started pointing at the sign and asking in broken English when the next train to London would be.'

As a depleted Sunday service was running, the next train was not for another hour, at 7.45pm.

Majlat had been dropped at the station by police after causing trouble outside HMP Wakefield, where he'd repeatedly turned up demanding to see Dominic.

'He started wittering about all sorts of stuff, most of which I couldn't understand. Then he asked for the time and I showed him my watch as he couldn't really speak English.

'I was feeling uncomfortable as the station is unmanned and it was deserted.'

When Majlat's mood darkened, Louise stopped answering his questions.

'He asked me to go for coffee with him, then to have sex for money and offered to pay £10, then £30. I ignored him and moved away along the platform.'

Feeling frightened, Louise took out her mobile to call a friend, but the battery was dead. She couldn't leave the platform as the only exit was a subway where she feared she would be followed and attacked.

Looking across at the opposite platform, she spotted a pay phone, but access was again through the underpass.  

'I sat down on a bench at the other end of the platform and tried to calm down, telling myself that people often think others are going to attack them or seem odd and nothing bad actually happens. But suddenly he was standing at my side, silent and motionless.'

For a few minutes, neither of them spoke. Then, when Louise looked down the tracks, willing a train to arrive, he punched her hard in the side of the face.

'I fell to the floor from the force and he started kicking me in the head and shouting at me. I was screaming back  -  I was terrified and didn't know what on earth was happening. But after a few minutes, he stopped and walked away.'

Her heart racing, Louise slowly got up as she tried to work out what to do.

'I kept shouting: "If you don't go I'll call the police." But he couldn't understand. I had no choice but to run for the subway.'

Majlat chased after her, reaching her before she'd descended the slope into the tunnel and grappled her to the floor.

'He quickly caught up as I have bad knees and can't run fast. He started hitting me, kicking and punching until he got me down on the ground.

'I fought back as hard as I could, but he was stronger than me and soon had me on the floor.

'I was screaming at him to get off me and he was shouting back: "You English should love me."

Then he kept repeating "You're going to die" as he knelt on my stomach and squeezed my neck so hard I couldn't breathe. He was strangling me and I knew that if his grip got any tighter, I would die.'

Realising the more she fought back, the harder Majlat squeezed her throat, Louise fell silent while he raped her.

'I thought that was it  -  I was going to die at the age of just 21,' she says. 'It kept running through my head that I wouldn't get to say goodbye to my boyfriend or Mum and Dad. I thought: "Do what you want, but please let me live." All I cared about was surviving.'

When he'd finished, Majlat stood up, pulled up his trousers and casually fastened his belt. Then he pointed at Louise's possessions on the floor and made her pick up each one. When she'd put them back into her bag he took her phone, cash and a bracelet. Then he lit a cigarette and sauntered off. 

At that point, the train finally pulled into the platform, so Louise ran back up the slope, shaking and crying, and managed to tell the driver what had happened.

Majlat was standing on the opposite platform watching her, but ran off when the driver shouted at him. Louise was taken on the train to the next stop, Barnsley, where she was met by police.

'I was sobbing  -  I felt horrified by what had happened and relieved it was over. As the adrenaline wore off, I just wanted to sleep and forget.'

Once the police had examined her, she returned to the house she shared with friends.

'I didn't want to tell anyone, I just wanted to be alone. I was determined not to see my family as I didn't want them to know; I thought they'd think it was my fault.

It was only while giving police interviews two days later that the event's magnitude slowly sunk in.

'The distress started properly as I realised fully what had happened. I found it stressful going over it again and again  -  it was like reliving it each time. But I wanted the police to find him  -  I was panicked that he could still be in Wakefield and would attack again.'

In fact, an unrepentant Majlat had travelled to London and when, five days after the attack, he tried using Louise's phone, it was swiftly traced to a hostel in Victoria, where he was arrested by police, using CCTV images to identify him.

Meanwhile, Louise was left the difficult task of telling those closest to her what had happened.

'My parents were shocked and upset. Mum was crying and saying she couldn't believe it had happened to her own daughter, that although you hear about rape you never think it could affect your own family.'

By Wednesday, Louise had been persuaded to tell her boyfriend, who is in the Army and based abroad.

'I wasn't going to tell him, but friends insisted I had to. I worried he'd blame me  -  that he'd be disgusted with me. I was so upset on the phone that he couldn't understand much at first, but I managed to calm down and slowly tell him.  

'He got very, very angry and had to take compassionate leave to come home. Thankfully, everything is just as it was between us before. I told him my fears and he said he still felt exactly the same. He has been incredibly supportive.'

She admits the relationship has had to endure a lot of stress.

'Sometimes I get angry and blame him for not being there. If he'd been there it wouldn't have happened. And, for a while, whenever he walked up behind me or put his hands on my shoulders it really freaked me out. When he kisses me sometimes I shake, but he understands why and always stays calm.

'But we're still able to have a full relationship. He's really protective now, though it can get too much sometimes as he doesn't want me to walk alone or go out in the dark. He worries a lot.'

Louise's guilt was made worse when Majlat said she had encouraged him.

'I understand it is common for rape victims to wonder if they were at fault and at times I did blame myself  -  he said I smiled at him so I was asking for it. It's all nonsense  -  if I smiled when I was talking I didn't mean to.

'But in this country you can smile to people at a bus stop and it doesn't mean anything, while in Romania apparently it's a flirtation. It's a different culture there  -  they don't even really report rape. I am sure he had done it before. I could tell he knew what he was doing.'

She has now been able to understand and deal with the self-blame.

'Because the attack was so brazen, in such a public spot, I worried people would wonder why I didn't get away. But I've adjusted to it now. I know it wasn't my fault.'

What Louise has found most healing, however, has been Majlat's conviction  - despite the court case bringing to light the shocking motivation behind the violent attack.

In January, a pre-sentence report revealed Majlat had told a psychologist: 'When I was on the railway station I thought I should rape this lady in order to get a place to eat and sleep and learn the English language.'

Hearing this was understandably difficult for Louise. 'I felt so angry. It's awful he would come over to do things like this, that I should have suffered for that. The judge was appalled.

'I think they should send him back to Romania where the prisons are worse and make him learn his lesson as he's got it easy here. I also think that prison in Britain should be harder.'

Last Friday, a judge at Leeds Crown Court granted Majlat his wish and ordered him to serve an indeterminate custodial sentence.

'I was really pleased with the sentence. I went to court for it, as although I never want to see his face again, I needed to see for myself that he was being taken away,' says Louise.

'I do feel justice has been done because his barrister says he has changed his mind about prison since being bullied and beaten up while on remand. But it is important to me that he will be deported afterwards, that he won't be allowed to stay here and hurt someone else.'

Such a sentiment is understandable, as is the judge recommending his deportation. What is rather less comprehensible, however, is how Majlat came to be here in the first place.

Not only did he enter Britain with a criminal record  -  easy enough for EU members whose credentials aren't checked  -  but at the time of the attack he was known to police: only two days earlier he had been released from an eight-week prison sentence in Oxfordshire after being convicted for burglary on his arrival in Britain last August.

Despite having served 19 years in Romanian prisons for robbery and burglary, he was not deported as he was deemed a low-risk offender.

Romanian officials claim they would have classified him as high-risk  -  but they weren't asked about him.

It is not an issue Louise cares to consider. 'The judge was very vocal, asking why there is no border control and why he was allowed to stay in Britain, but I tend not to think about it. You can't look at everybody's passport and stop them coming in and out.

'If he'd been on the back of a lorry, it would be a different story, but because of the EU he can legally come and go as he likes.'

But that doesn't make it better, does it? Indeed, in many ways it makes it much worse  -  for the fact is that Majlat's presence in Britain wasn't the result of a regretful security lapse, but is an inevitable consequence of the security system.

For although convicts from the 27 EU member states can be deported if they present a 'sufficiently serious threat', police forces are unable to make informed judgments because passports are not linked to criminal records and there is no central information sharing across Europe.

That the incident is a consequence of the EU's open borders cannot be debated  -  Majlat tried to travel to Britain before Romania joined the EU, but was turned back in Bulgaria.

This issue clearly troubles Louise, shown by her desire to know about Majlat's family back home. It is fear of them that makes her hide her identity.

'Does his family know he's in prison?' she asks anxiously when I mention his background.

'I don't want to be identified because his brothers might know people and that could put me at risk. I'm scared they will find me. Are there only two brothers here? No more will come over, will they?' (Of course, if Gordon Brown has his way!)

That is, of course, an unanswerable question. For there are plenty of people to whom Britain's prisons sound attractive and who would have little trouble entering the UK.

But Louise is remarkably resilient.

'I have got to be,' she says. 'I've got to keep it together. I feel lucky to be alive and happy that he's locked up.

'But my doctors say my anxiety will never entirely pass, it'll always be there. What happened has happened and I'll always remember.'

Though what she wants more than anything is to forget.

Louise's real name has been changed.

THE BPP WOULD CASTRATE ALL SEX-OFFENDERS AND
THEN HANG THE BASTARDS!!!