Two Nepalese chefs convicted of beach sex offences

A NEPALESE chef has been convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl on a beach in Dunoon.His co-accused was found guilty of having underage sex with another 14-year-old girl
The High Court in Glasgow. Picture: TSPLThe High Court in Glasgow. Picture: TSPL
The High Court in Glasgow. Picture: TSPL

Prakash Giri, 29, and Arjun Kharel, who both worked as chefs at a hotel in Dunoon came across the girls as he walked along the beach at Alexandra Parade, Dunoon, and took advantage of them.

Giri was convicted of rape and his Kharel of having sex with an under-age girl.

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Giri denied raping the teenager or even having sex with her but his DNA was found in her underwear. While Kharel claimed that he believe the girl he had sex with was 18.

The High Court in Glasgow heard that both girls had been drinking vodka and were very drunk.

Prosecutor Richard Goddard told the jury: “Mr Giri didn’t care that this was a 14-year-old girl. He just didn’t care that she was in no condition to consent to intercourse with him, due to the severely intoxicated state she was in. Mr Kharel just didn’t care that the girl he had sex with was only 14. He knew that because she told him.”

In evidence the rape victim said: “I was staggering everywhere.I couldn’t really walk, couldn’t really see and can’t really remember much.

“I kept backing out. I was too drunk.”

She told the court that she never consented to any sexual activity.

The girl told of falling on the steps down to the beach and added the next thing she recalled was lying on her back with Giri on top on her and her friend trying to pull him off her.

Her friend told the High Court in Glasgow: “I saw him on top of my friend and it looked like they were having sex. She didn’t look right... she was lying on her back.. to me she looked unconscious.”

A 17-year-old passer-by in a car was so concerned about the state of the two girls who were naked from the waist down after the sexual assaults that night he phoned the police.

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When police arrived they found the rape victim laying on the ground apparently unconscious.

During his trial Kharel admitted having sex with the rape victim’s 14-year-old friend, but claimed he didn’t realise how young she was.

However the girl said in evidence that they had a conversation where they asked each others’s name and age.

But Kharel told police who interviewed him that she had told him she was 18.

Judge Sean Murphy QC remanded Giri in custody, but allowed Kharel bail.

Both men, who were in the UK legally and working at a hotel in Dunoon, were placed on the sex offenders’ register.