Rapist who targeted lone women jailed

A rapist who targeted vulnerable women on nights out in Leeds has been jailed.

Rashid Boachie, 44, raped a woman who mistook him for a cab driver and got into his car in Beeston in 2021, Leeds Crown Court heard.

In August 2025, he sexually assaulted another woman after she became separated from her friends.

Boachie was found guilty on 19 February of rape and sexual assault, and was jailed on Wednesday for 15 years and six months.

In court, the judge commended a member of the public who intervened in the 2025 assault.

Boachie was identified after a media appeal and arrested on 14 August, when DNA samples were also taken. They linked him to the 2021 offence.

Speaking before the sentencing, Det Insp Jodie Hayes of West Yorkshire Police said: "In both cases, Boachie has deliberately preyed on heavily intoxicated, vulnerable women who have become separated from their friends.

"He is a dangerous sexual predator who will hopefully now be behind bars for a long time."

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