A student has been found guilty of drugging and raping 10 women in the UK and London over a four-year period.
Zhenhao Zou, 28, filmed himself sexually assaulting nine of his victims and kept the videos as souvenirs.
He carried out the attacks between September 2019 and May 2023 while a PhD student at UCL.
Using the name ‘Pakho’ online, he would befriend fellow Chinese students on WeChat and dating apps before inviting them for drinks and drugging them at his flats in London and Cina.
Two of the women have been identified while the other eight are yet to be traced.
The mechanical engineering student was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of possession of a controlled drug with intent to commit a sexual offence, namely butanediol.
He was cleared of two counts of possession of an extreme pornographic image and one of possession of MDMA with intent to commit a sexual offence.
One of the women, who Zou attacked at his Elephant and Castle home on May 18, 2023, told the court: ‘He forced me to stay at his place and after a lot of alcohol he still wouldn’t allow me to go and dragged me into his room and raped me.’
She had tried to leave the flat, where they had been drinking wine, after starting to feel uncomfortable.
When Zou refused to let her leave, the woman found herself on the floor crying as she tried to escape.
He dragged her back into the flat and forced her to drink a large glass of vodka.
In a previous attack, another woman tried to get Zou to stop before she lost consciousness.
Video footage showed her saying ‘I really don’t want… I beg you, don’t do this’, to which Zou responded by saying his bedroom’s sound insulation was ‘very good’.
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