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He ran to Albania where he was brought back to the UK for sentencing
A rapist migrant who was deported after a sex attack on a night out has been found living in Essex after sneaking back into Britain.
Blerim Hajdarmataj committed a horrific sex attack against an 18-year-old woman after a chance meeting at a Chelmsford bar in September 2014.
He was working as a cleaner at the time, and the 35-year-old invited the young woman back to his home. Despite her initial refusal, she woke up in his bed the following day.
The woman awoke undressed, with scratches, bruises and bite marks across her body, and felt as though the room was spinning.
She ran from the property and managed to flag down a motorist for help as he pursued her.
Hajdarmataj, who also had aliases Ben Matka and Rinor Hajdarmataj, disappeared during his 2016 court case, and he was convicted in his absence.
He was later found in Kosovo after being traced to Albania and brought back to the UK under a European arrest warrant to be sentenced.
In 2017, Detective Inspector Terry Balding said: “Hajdarmataj took advantage of a vulnerable woman in the most horrendous and vile way.
“He has shown no remorse for his actions, which have had a lasting effect on the victim. By fleeing the country during the trial, he put her through more fear and pain.”
He was then deported in 2019; however, he was found living in Rayleigh, Essex, in July of this year.
The rapist pleaded guilty to knowingly entering the UK in breach of a deportation order and breaching his sex offender notification requirements by failing to inform police of his return and new address at Basildon Crown Court on Wednesday.
Judge Richard Conley sentenced Hajdarmataj to 16 months' imprisonment, as well as a 12-month sentence to run consecutively, for returning to the UK in violation of a deportation order.
A 12-month sentence automatically triggers deportation proceedings.
It came after an illegal immigrant was jailed for life for murdering his flatmate just three years after a "strikingly similar" killing in his home country.
Eugeniu Neamtu, 59, was handed his sentence at the Old Bailey this morning for a minimum term of 27 years for killing a man in the UK amid a row over a £5 note.
He committed the offence three years after serving a sentence in Romania for a "strikingly similar" murder.
The construction worker, known as Jimmy, was found guilty of fatally stabbing his flatmate and fellow Romanian Gheorghe Trica, 63, in Walthamstow in east London on February 20.
Neamtu stabbed Mr Trica in the heart in similar circumstances to a previous killing in his home country in 2006, for which he was jailed for 15 years in Romania.
In 2007, he was found guilty of stabbing his victim repeatedly in the chest in a drunken row over money.
Then, once released from prison, Neamtu made his way to Britain in September 2023 – and did not declare his murder conviction.
