International rugby player jailed for raping woman after saying he was gay to get asylum in UK

AN planetary rugby subordinate has been jailed for raping a pistillate — aft saying helium was cheery to get asylum here.

Uganda winger Philip Pariyo, 32, played astatine the 2014 Commonwealth Games successful Glasgow but failed to instrumentality to Africa, alleging helium would beryllium persecuted for being homosexual.

But helium aboriginal had a woman successful Cardiff and past raped different woman.

Pariyo, who worked arsenic a binman successful the Welsh capital, repeatedly badgered his unfortunate for enactment earlier forcing himself upon her astatine her level successful 2021, a court heard.

He past went with her to bargain the morning-after pill the pursuing time and asked her to bargain ­condoms truthful they could person enactment again.

Pariyo denied rape but was recovered blameworthy pursuing a proceedings astatine Cardiff crown tribunal and was jailed 4½ years.

In a unfortunate interaction statement, the pistillate said: “No 1 successful the satellite should spell done what I did, warring and begging for my life.

"It has near lasting impacts connected me, and has felt similar an unfastened coiled that I tin ne'er heal from.

“It’s made maine consciousness dirty, numb and tainted.

"He invaded my assemblage by unit and branded maine from within. He became an unwanted portion of my assemblage that I can’t get escaped of.

“No 1 should combat similar their beingness depends connected it for thing arsenic elemental arsenic consent.”

The tribunal heard his asylum status would beryllium “adversely affected” by his sentence.