Hero passer-by raised alarm after 'vulnerable' NHS mum was 'repeatedly raped until she died'

Natalie Shotter was seen connected CCTV dancing extracurricular a store with different radical earlier she ended up unconscious connected a seat wherever an alleged intersexual predator took vantage of her susceptible state

A leader passer-by alerted exigency services aft uncovering a "vulnerable" NHS idiosyncratic mum who was allegedly repeatedly raped until she died arsenic she laic connected a parkland bench.

Mum-of-three Natalie Shotter had been dormant for respective hours earlier she was recovered by a passer-by successful Southall Park, successful westbound London, connected July 17, 2021. Ms Shotter was a small much than 5 ft gangly and weighed conscionable 43kg astatine the clip of her death, the Old Bailey heard.

Prosecutor Alison Morgan KC told jurors: "In the aboriginal greeting of 17 July 2021, Natalie Shotter was recovered by a passerby connected a seat successful Southhall Park. She was conscionable 37 years old."

Natalie had been drinking passim the evening and is believed to person inhaled poppers, the tribunal heard. Earlier that night, Ms Shotter was captured connected different CCTV footage dancing extracurricular a store with different people.

While unconscious connected a bench, Mohamed Iidow, 35, is alleged to person repeatedly raped her until she died. He denies manslaughter and rape.

"Very sadly, by the clip she was found, she had died and it was evident that she had been dormant for a fig of hours. The passer-by who had recovered Natalie did not cognize her and helium called the exigency services.

"What had happened to Natalie to origin her decease was not wide astatine that time. She had not been stabbed oregon beaten to death, determination were nary evident signs of important wounded to her assemblage and determination was cipher other with her.

"It has taken clip to recognize what indispensable person happened to Natalie that nighttime to recognize what it was that indispensable person caused her death. Crucially a CCTV camera astatine immoderate region distant from the seat connected which she was recovered would uncover what had happened to her that night.

"The prosecution's lawsuit is that Natalie was a susceptible pistillate retired enjoying herself who was past taken vantage of by this defendant. Natalie was raped repeatedly orally by this suspect and it was the process of orally raping her again and again that caused her death.

"It is alleged that the suspect raped Natalie Shotter, by repeatedly penetrating her rima with his penis. Although it is grainy and astatine a distance, the prosecution alleges that the CCTV footage shows the suspect engaging successful acts of oral penetration.

"This footage shows helium positioned himself and Natalie successful assorted ways to alteration him to insert his penis into her mouth. You'll besides spot from the footage and the lack of immoderate wide question by her, Natalie Shotter does not look to person been conscious astatine that time.

"He could ne'er person believed that she was consenting. The prosecution besides alleges manslaughter. The prosecution's lawsuit is that it was the process of raping Natalie repeatedly, which was evidently an unlawful happening to do, that caused her death."

Iidow, of St Paul's Close, Hounslow, was archetypal arrested connected 4 August 2021 and charged connected 21 December 2023. He denies rape and manslaughter.

The proceedings continues and is acceptable to past 2 to 3 weeks.