Sex offender rapes classmate in Glasgow classroom

Zineelabibine Abbood brutally attacked the girl during a lunch break at the Glasgow secondary school on November 29, 2019.

Despite her repeated protests, Abbood only stopped when a teacher entered the music room.

She found the traumatized victim “visibly disturbed” and in tears.

Abbood stood trial for rape at the High Court in Glasgow.

He said the girl had instigated the sexual acts – and she had made the allegations because, he said, she was “embarrassed” by what had happened.

But despite his claims, the jury convicted Abbood.

He was released on bail pending sentencing, but will likely be locked up when he returns to the dock next month.

Jurors heard that the couple – both in their mid-teens at the time – had initially played guitar in music lessons.

Abbood explained to his lawyer Paul Mullen that it was the girl who made advances toward him before any sexual contact occurred.

Mr Mullen asked him: “Did you want what happened that day to happen?”

Abbood said: “Yes, with their consent.”

Abbood claimed they then heard a teacher enter the room and stopped.

He told jurors: “I remember (the girl) saying she had had really bad news and I was comforting her.”

“I told (the teacher) that I was sorry and that I did not mean to be rude by being in the room.”

Mr Mullen asked him if he knew why the victim had said the incident was not consensual.

Abbood said: “Maybe because the teacher found out and her friends teased her. She must have been embarrassed.”

But prosecutors said Abbood actually raped the teenager there, biting, pulling and groping her until she sustained injuries.

It was alleged that Abbood pestered her for sexual intercourse – and then insisted on “showing” her.

Deputy Solicitor Ruaraidh Ferguson questioned him about the teacher who had come into the classroom.

Mr Ferguson said: “She said when she entered (the girl) was visibly upset, with red eyes and a swollen face, and it was believed she had been crying for some time.”

Abbood responded that he thought the victim was “fine,” although he “wasn’t paying attention to her face” at the time.

At one point, the prosecutor asked him: “That is not the case in this incident. She told you in various ways that she did not consent?”

“The girl said ‘no’ to you several times?”

Abbood said: “She didn’t say no. She agreed.”

Judge Thomas Welsh KC agreed to maintain Abbood’s bail until sentencing in Edinburgh on 14 June.