37-year-old mum was raped 'again and again until she died' as she lay on bench after night out

Natalie Shotter, 37, was attacked aft reportedly falling unconscious portion connected a nighttime retired successful West London - and was aboriginal recovered dormant by a passerby connected a parkland bench

A mum-of-three was raped “again and again until she died”, and was aboriginal recovered dormant connected a parkland bench, a tribunal has heard.

Natalie Shotter, 37, was attacked aft reportedly collapsing connected a nighttime retired successful Southall, West London. Iidow Mohamed, 35, is accused of assaulting the NHS idiosyncratic successful the aboriginal hours of July 17, 2021, but has denied rape and manslaughter.

Prosecutor Alison Morgan KC told the court that Ms Shotter's assemblage was recovered by a passerby hours aboriginal arsenic she laic unconscious connected a parkland bench. She said: "What had happened to Natalie was not clear. She had not been stabbed oregon beaten to death. There were nary signs of important wounded to her body, and nary 1 other was with her.

"It has taken clip to recognize what indispensable person happened to Natalie to origin her death. Crucially, a CCTV camera astatine immoderate region distant from the seat reveals what happened to her that night."

The tribunal was told however Ms Shotter was "vulnerable", fixed her struggles with intelligence wellness issues, intoxicant dependency and cause abuse. Ms Morgan said: “On the nighttime successful question, Natalie was retired enjoying herself and was taken vantage of by this defendant.

"She was raped repeatedly by this suspect and it was the process of raping her, again and again, that caused her death. Although it is grainy and astatine a distance, the CCTV footage shows the suspect engaging successful acts of oral penetration.

“From the footage and the lack of question by her, Natalie does not look to person been conscious astatine the clip she was raped, fto unsocial consenting to what the suspect was doing to her. He could ne'er person believed that she was consenting. This defendant's actions - the process of raping her repeatedly - caused Natalie's death.”

Ms Shotter was peculiarly susceptible connected the nighttime she was attacked, the tribunal heard. She was conscionable implicit 5ft gangly and weighed conscionable implicit six and a fractional chromatic (43kg), jurors were told. Ms Morgan said the mum had been drinking, and whitethorn person besides inhaled amyl nitrate - besides known arsenic poppers - but insisted that the ineligible precocious did not origin her death.

“The prosecution's lawsuit is that consuming substances made Natalie each the much vulnerable”, she said. “It did not origin her death, but it whitethorn good explicate however it was that she came to beryllium connected that seat successful the park, connected her own, successful the mediate of the night, lying connected her side, susceptible to males successful that park.”

In CCTV played to court, Ms Shotter was captured walking done the streets and talking connected her phone. She was past seen stopping extracurricular a store to creation to the dependable of a drum, with a antheral and 2 different women joining her.

Ms Morgan said Ms Shotter did not look drunk capable to beryllium incapable to basal oregon conflict to walk, adding she appeared "happy". Jurors were told they volition beryllium played further CCTV footage showing Mohamed assaulting her successful the park. Yesterday, the 35-year-old spoke lone to corroborate his sanction and plead not blameworthy to rape and manslaughter.

The proceedings continues.