A MAN has finally been caged for his part in subjecting a young woman to a terrifying rape in Dudley - more than seven years after the attack took place.

Nasar Mohammed from Lye was jailed for nine years for his involvement in the brutal sex attack which happened back in October 2002 in a caravan on an industrial estate in Holly Hall.

The 27-year-old, from Barn Close, was only brought to justice after police matched his DNA - obtained after he was arrested for a minor offence in July 2008.

Mohammed, who pleaded not guilty to one charge of rape, initially denied involvement in the “horrific and humiliating” attack which has left the victim “still haunted years later”.

He later, however, changed his story - saying the woman had consented to sex.

But at the end of a three-day trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court - it took the four-man-eight-woman jury just 40 minutes to decide he was guilty.

The court heard Mohammed raped the woman after five other men had lured her to the caravan, threatened her with a blowtorch and brutally gang raped her.

They were jailed back in 2003 for offences including rape, false imprisonment and indecent assault.

But Mohammed got away with it - as a DNA sample, found on the woman when she was examined by forensic scientists, could not be matched on the national database.

It was only when he was arrested in July 2008 on suspicion of threatening behaviour - Denis Desmond, prosecuting, said - that officers took a DNA sample.

He wasn’t charged with the minor offence, but Mr Desmond told the court: “That swab was sent off and in due course it provided a hit, it matched the sample taken by police after the gang rape years earlier."

Mr Desmond said the chances of the same sample being provided by another person were “a billion to one”.

He also told the court police had traced a call from the caravan to a phone owned at the time by Mohammed.

The Honourable Mrs Justice Dobbs told him when sentencing: "I accept you were not a part of the original incident - but you can have been in no doubt the victim was not consenting and that she had been falsely imprisoned and that she had suffered by being sexually abused.

"You escaped the long arm of the law for many years.

"Your victim had to relive the incident - and you branded her a liar when it was clear from all the evidence she was telling the truth.”

The Judge told him he had shown no remorse and sentenced him to nine years in prison, as well as ordering him to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.