Any other 23 feminine possible sufferers have reported that they are going to had been raped through Zhenhao Zou – the Chinese language PhD scholar detectives consider could also be one of the most nation’s maximum prolific intercourse offenders.
The Metropolitan Police introduced a global enchantment after Zou, 28, was once convicted of drugging and raping 10 ladies following a tribulation on the Internal London Crown Courtroom final month.
Detectives have no longer showed whether or not the 23 individuals who have come ahead upload to their estimates that greater than 50 different ladies international can have been focused through the College School London scholar.
Metropolitan Police commander Kevin Southworth mentioned: “We have now sufferers attaining out to us from other portions of the globe.
“This present day, the main puts the place we consider offending can have came about right now seems to be each in England, right here in London, and over in China.”
Symbol: Metropolitan Police commander Kevin Southworth
Zou lived in a scholar flat in Woburn Position, close to Russell Sq. in central London, and later in a flat within the Uncle construction in Churchyard Row in Elephant and Fortress, south London.
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He had additionally been a scholar at Queen’s College Belfast, the place he studied mechanical engineering from 2017 till 2019. Police say they have got no longer had any experiences from Belfast however added they have been “open-minded about that”.
“Given how lively and prolific Zou seems to had been along with his terrible offending, there’s each and every prospect that he can have indignant anyplace on this planet,” Mr Southworth mentioned.
“We would not need somebody to write down off the truth they are going to had been a sufferer of his behaviour just by distinctive feature of the truth that you’re from a definite position.
“The secret is, in the event you assume you’ll have been suffering from Zhenhao Zou or any person you recognize can have been, please do not hang again. Please make touch with us.”
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Zou used hidden or hand held cameras to report his assaults, and stored the pictures and incessantly the ladies’s property as souvenirs.
He focused younger, Chinese language ladies, inviting them to his flat for beverages or to review, prior to drugging and assaulting them.
Zou was once convicted of eleven counts of rape, with two of the offences with regards to one sufferer, in addition to 3 counts of voyeurism, 10 counts of ownership of an excessive pornographic symbol, one rely of false imprisonment and 3 counts of ownership of a managed drug with intent to dedicate a sexual offence, specifically butanediol.
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Mr Southworth mentioned: “Of the ones 10 sufferers, a number of weren’t known in order we may well be positive precisely the place on this planet they have been, however their circumstances, nonetheless, have been enough to peer convictions at court docket.
“There have been additionally, on the time, 50 movies that have been known of additional possible feminine sufferers of Zhenhao Zou’s terrible crimes.
“We’re nonetheless running to spot all of the ones ladies in the ones movies.
“We have now now, fortunately, had 23 sufferer survivors come ahead throughout the enchantment that we now have carried out, a few of whom could also be equivalent with one of the most women that we noticed in the ones movies, a few of whom will even turn into from the unique indicted circumstances.”
Mr Southworth added: “In the end, now it is the investigation group’s task to professionally pick out our method via the ones person items of proof, the ones person sufferers’ tales, to peer if we will determine who can have been a sufferer, when and the place, so then we will convey Zou to justice for the entire extent of his crimes.”
Mr Southworth mentioned extra assets might be put into the investigation, and that detectives need to perceive “what can have came about with out wishing to revisit the trauma, however in some way that allows [the potential victims] to present proof in the most productive imaginable method.”
The Metropolitan Police is interesting to somebody who thinks they are going to had been focused through Zou to touch the pressure both through emailing survivors@met.police.united kingdom, or by way of the foremost incident public portal at the pressure’s web page.
