Biting rapist caught by matching toothmarks
A sex attacker who bit women on the face and bottom has been jailed for six years.
Former waiter Syed Mokit was working at the Taj Indian restaurant in Osborne Road, Southsea, Hampshire, when he carried out the attacks in April.
He pleaded guilty at Portsmouth Crown Court to attempting to rape an 18-year-old and indecently assaulting a 50-year-old (Caterer, 16 August, page 4).
Simon Foster, prosecuting, told the court how Mokit had sunk his teeth into the face and lip of the 50-year-old. He then carried out the sex attack, calling her "dirty English trash".
Ten days later, the father-of-two confronted the 18-year-old as she went to a Southsea shop at 4.30am. She heard his footsteps and fled to a phone box where she dialled 999.
Mokit pounced on her in the kiosk and bit her three times.
The woman struggled free but Mokit caught up with her, pulled down her trousers, bit her on the bottom and then attempted to rape her.
He was caught because detectives investigating the sex attacks drafted in Chichester dentist Ronald Foden, who made a plaster cast of Mokit's teeth and matched them to the bite marks inflicted on both women.
Sentencing Mokit, Judge Tom MacKean said: "In all the circumstances, these offences are so serious that it is my public duty to sentence you to prison for some time."
Mokit was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
by Jonathan Carter
