A FORMER takeaway food manager serving a 12-year jail sentence for raping two women should be deported when he is released from prison, the Royal Court has ruled.

Nacer Eddine Benyoucef (37) was jailed in August last year after jurors unanimously found him guilty of attacking both women. The Assize trial heard that he attacked his first victim – a 24-year-old woman from England – as she lay unconscious on his bed following a drinking session. She was so traumatised by the attack in April last year that she left Jersey.

Eight months later Benyoucef, originally from Morocco, raped and repeatedly beat a 37-year-old woman while on bail after being charged with the first attack. The court heard that he ‘turned into a monster’ and raped the woman twice while slapping and trying to strangle her after the pair had spent the evening drinking in her flat.

Benyoucef (pictured) denied raping the woman and claimed that the sex was consensual, but he was convicted of two counts of rape and one of sodomy following a two week trial. He later had an appeal against his conviction dismissed by the Court of Appeal. On Wednesday the Royal Court recommended that Benyoucef should be deported.

The Lieutenant-Governor will make a final decision on deportation when Benyoucef completes his sentence.
Deputy Bailiff Michael Birt sat with Jurats Le Brocq, King, Le Cornu, Newcombe and Liddiard.

Benyoucef was sent to prison for raping two women