UK: Algerian Accused of Stalking, Choking and Assaulting Woman in London Park

He’s claiming his twin brother did it.

What’s shocking is that he appears to be lying.

This is Local London:

A man accused of stalking, choking and then trying to rape a stranger in Colliers Wood claims the attacker could be his twin brother, a court heard.

The terrified victim fled to raise the alarm after being dragged into a park by Khaled Argoub and sexually assaulted, a jury was told.

Argoub, 21, followed a woman he saw on a London Underground night service, choked her until she blacked out and forced her to perform a sexual act on him, it is alleged.

Kingston Crown Court heard that his DNA was found under her fingernails and there were CCTV images of him.

But in a police interview he said that the man in the CCTV could be his twin brother, even though the Algerian national had told his housemate he had no other family in the UK.

The young woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was able to escape by scratching for her survival, biting him and removing her jumpsuit so she could run away.

She was forced to flee naked to a nearby housing estate and seek help from a stranger who called the police and an ambulance.

He is accused of closely following the woman out of the Tube at around 3am in Colliers Wood.

DNA samples of Argoub were recovered from the young woman’s fingernails and a baseball cap believed to belong to him was found by police at the park where the alleged attack took place.

Argoub denies two counts of attempted rape, three counts of sexual assault, one count of attempting to choke with intent to commit rape, and a count of assault by penetration.

The trial continues.