September 2019

Disgraced former A&E doctor jailed after he raped woman while acting ‘like a wild animal’

A former A&E doctor from Lincolnshire violently raped a woman who was so terrified during the ordeal that she started to pray.

Dr Joel Ajewole, 61, has been jailed for nine and half years after he admitted two counts of rape in March this year

Ajewole, who had worked at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, was questioned after his victim sought help from firefighters who were working on a street in south Lincolnshire.

The woman, who cannot be named, later revealed to police that she had been raped by Ajewole.

In her statement, the victim described how Ajewole “acted like a wild animal” during the incident – squeezing her throat and threatening her with a pair of scissors.

Ajewole also threatened to kill the woman and himself as he did not want to go to prison.

During her ordeal, the woman was so frightened that she began to pray, Lincoln Crown Court was told.

The court heard Ajewole had not worked as a doctor for six years after losing his job in Boston after a complaint was made against him by a patient’s family.

Ajewole qualified as a doctor in Nigeria and had spent 30 years working as an A&E doctor after coming to the UK from the Seychelles.

Ajewole pleaded guilty to two charges of rape and one offence of assault by penetration.

Passing sentence Judge John Pini QC told Ajewole: “You are an educated man, a qualified doctor, but had stopped practising at the time of these incidents.”

But the judge reminded Ajewole how his victim had described him as “acting like a wild animal”.

Judge Pini said: “She says she was so frightened that she started to pray.