A UK based man with Nigerian descent who used fake social media profiles to convince young women to send compromising images of themselves before blackmailing and raping one of them has been jailed.
The suspect identified as Rhys Miller-Offiong, 24, was jailed for 15 years with an four-year extended licence at Woolwich Crown Court in London on Thursday, 6 December.
On his release, he will be made to sign the Sex Offenders Register for an indefinite period and will be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Miller-Offiong had pleaded guilty at the same court on 5 November to one count of rape, one count of blackmail, four counts of distributing indecent images of a child, three counts of disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress, and one count of committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence.
A further count of rape and attempted rape were ordered to lie on file.
An investigation was launched after Miller-Offiong raped a 19-year-old woman at an address in Catford on 24 August 2017.
Miller-Offiong had met the woman online using a fake profile. He had initially persuaded her to send intimate images to him and then set up a meeting with her. When the victim attended and realised Miller-Offiong was not the person she thought she had been engaging with online, he threatened to send the images to her friends and family if she refused to go with him. Under duress, the woman went with Miller-Offiong to an address in Catford where she was raped.
The offence was reported to police who managed to identify Miller-Offiong through his social media profiles. Further investigations established two other young women who had been snared online by Miller-Offiong and tricked into sending compromising images and videos of themselves to him.
He was arrested and subsequently charged.
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