Clement Omoregbee shouted at the judge “You mad? Take me downstairs” before leaving the dock rather than hear the minimum term he would serve.
Omoregbee, 38, drugged four women into “total amnesia” before violently raping them in public after they had nights out in Shoreditch.
He had shown no emotion at Wood Green Crown Court as he heard how his victims still had flashbacks and had contemplated suicide.
But on hearing he was to get a life sentence he erupted: “You mad? Take me downstairs to the f***ing wing. You man f***ing dumb.”
He was jailed for a minimum of 13 years and four months in his absence.
Judge Karim Ezzat slammed the rapist for showing no remorse to his victims, only regret for finding himself facing prison.
His denials had meant his victims had to give evidence in court. The five week trial had heard how he drugged them by administrating either GHB or GBL, before stealing their jewellery, bank cards, and phones.
All 12 offences were committed while he was on a 15-month suspended sentence for a burglary committed on November 9 2018.
After being arrested near his home Omoregbee initially denied the rapes during a police interview on 23 April 2021, after he was linked to three attacks by DNA evidence.
He was later charged with a fourth attack after the Metropolitan Police researched the predator’s behaviour and probed their systems for similar crimes.
Ahead of his trial, Omoregbee pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud and theft for stealing the phones, jewellery and bank cards and making purchases after he’d carried out the rapes.
His first victim was a 28 year old who had been on an enjoyable date with another man in February 2019.
Her date left around midnight and the woman next remembers being bent over a wall in a churchyard being raped.
She next recalled approaching strangers in the street in a state of distress.
On the night of 16 January 2020 Omoregbee found his second victim, who had been on a night out visiting several Shoreditch bars with her pals.
She separated from her group and lost her memory, save for recalling a man having sex with her while they were outside.
On returning to her friends she was quiet before bursting into tears.
Omoregbee struck again on September 4 2020 – a woman was on a night out with her ex-flatmate, and lost her memory on her second drink.
She came-to near her flat, struggling to put her passcode into her phone. After falling asleep she woke to flashbacks of “someone poking around in her groin area”, and later fell into a state of panic when she spotted grass stains on her dress.
Just three months later, on the night of December 5 2020, another woman blacked out while in a bar with her friends.
She recalled talking with a man, Omoregbee, while on a brown sofa in the street.
Her partner rescued her after she fell asleep on the bus back to her home in Walthamstow, having tracked her phone.
In the ensuing couple of days she started to remember a man behind her and her saying ‘wear a condom’.
Omoregbee did not wear a condom for any of the rapes and his semen was found on three of the women, though the fourth woman’s sample was later lost by police after it had tested positive for Omoregbee.
Handing down his verdict, the judge said: “Over the course of the trial I have heard victims give evidence, their only connection was your terrible offending.
“Your victims were all stupefied on the night that you attacked as a result of your drugging, as a result of being drugged by you, or someone connected to you.
“No sentence that this court can impose will reverse the trauma that these four brave women in this trial have suffered.
“The victims’ vulnerability was both from the fact that they were all on nights out, and had all consumed alcohol, and the fact that you drugged them.
“You stole from them, you took their money their means of accessing help.”
Referring to one of Omoregbee’s victims, who was ruled to have suffered severe psychological harm, Judge Ezzat said: “The attack that you perpetrated on her has put damage on every part of her life and left her contemplating suicide.”
The same woman, in her impact statement read to the court, said: “I hoped when he raped me I would die.
“I wondered why if he raped me, why he didn’t just kill me. I didn’t want to live with this pain and couldn’t imagine a future in which I was better.”
Another woman said in her impact statement, again read to the court, that: “ I think the biggest impact this had was my ability to trust my own judgment and ultimately trust myself.
“The way this happened seemed so insidious that it made me question myself over and over. I wasn’t held down, I wasn’t beaten, I didn’t cry for help.
“I didn’t do anything that is typically synonymous with rape and the guilt and self-blame that resulted was something I found myself unable to rid myself of.
“Although my memory and alcohol consumption was used as the only defence – I knew with all my self that the version of events put to me (by him) were completely untrue.
“The location was the same but the commentary threaded into this impression that I consented gave me absolute confidence that this person’s actions that night were calculated.”
Omoregbee of Charlton Lane, Greenwich, did not return to court to hear the judge sentence him for a minimum term of 13 years and 122 days for four rapes, four thefts, three counts of fraud and one possession for cannabis; the sentences will be served concurrently less time already spent on remand.
Detective Constable Steve Halfhide from the Complex Investigation Team said: “Clement Omoregbee is a vile predator who targeted lone women in the night time economy.
“He has no place in society and is a danger to women. Omoregbee’s violent and disturbing actions have had life-changing impacts on the women he attacked.
“The victims have been incredibly strong throughout this lengthy process. I am pleased they have seen justice. It was important to them all to help protect women of London from any further attacks by this man.
“All of the victims suffered extreme memory loss and t was accepted by both prosecution and defence during the trial that there was a possibility it could be indicative of GHB/GBL being administered to them.
“I would urge anyone who has been a victim of rape or sexual assault to come forward and report what happened to police. We will support you and take you seriously.”
