Small boat asylum seeker guilty of raping woman at London hostel

Yousif Al-Maliki, 30, carried out the attack while staying at the Astor Hostel in South Kensington - (Google Maps)

An asylum-seeker who arrived in the UK on a small boat is facing years in prison for raping a woman at a London hostel.

Yousif Al-Maliki, 30, carried out the attack on a woman he had just met on August 1 last year, while staying at the Astor Hostel in South Kensington.