A sex predator bit a woman's breast in a "vicious" street attack inflicting a permanent scar.
Ahmed Al-Razawe, 24, sexually assaulted three victims in Liverpool city centre in the space of just four days. He first groped the thighs of a "terrified" 17-year-old girl and her 18-year-old friend, after asking them for sex and making "strange noises".
Al-Razawe then launched a second "humiliating and degrading" attack. He slapped a young woman's bottom, before sinking his teeth into her breast and hitting her in the head with a wine bottle.
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Liverpool Crown Court heard Al-Razawe, assisted by an Arabic interpreter in the dock, is a Syrian national who entered the UK illegally. He is awaiting the result of an application for asylum and was living in a hostel in Upper Park Street, Toxteth.
Henry Riding, prosecuting, said Al-Razawe struck at Liverpool One bus station, at around 11.30pm, on Saturday, October 23. Two female friends, aged 17 and 18, were sitting at a bus stop waiting for a taxi when Al-Razawe approached.
He knelt down in front of the victims and asked them if they would go and have sex with him. They kept telling him to go away, but he told the 17-year-old she had "beautiful eyes", while making "strange noises".
He kept putting his hands on the victims' thighs, despite their protests, and they became "more and more scared". Al-Razawe then put his hand under the 18-year-old's shorts.
This caused her to "jump back in tears" and her friend to shout: "What are you doing?" Al-Razawe "walked away", leaving the girls "extremely distressed".
The pervert targeted his third victim in Lydia Ann Street, at around 12.40am, on Wednesday, October 27. He was holding a wine bottle and asked two women "open, open", but one of them, in her 20s, said "no sorry" and they kept walking.
Al-Razawe slapped her bottom and grabbed and squeezed it, and the victim's friend shouted at him. Mr Riding said: "He turned towards her, swinging his arm and making noises, which did not make sense."
The victim went to help her friend and grabbed Al-Razawe around the neck, when they both fell to the ground. Mr Riding said: "He bit her left breast and struck her head with the bottle."
He dropped the bottle, which smashed, and the victim screamed "help me". A man then shouted "get off" and Al-Razawe ran away.
Mr Riding said the third victim suffered a "bite mark that broke the skin" and bruising to her breast, legs and elbows. He said: "She describes that the bite to her breast left a lasting scar, which is a permanent reminder of what happened and affects the clothing she can wear."
Al-Razawe previously admitted three counts of sexual assault and one count of assault causing actual bodily harm. Ken Heckle, defending, today said Al-Razawe wanted to withdraw his guilty pleas in respect of his first two victims.
However, after a further conference with his client, he said Al-Razawe accepted his guilt in full. Mr Heckle said his client had told a probation officer he was "exasperated and fed up of the whole legal process".
The judge, Recorder Ian Harris, said: "I'm sorry he feels that way. There are complainants I have to consider who I'm sure have other words to describe the way they feel."
Mr Heckle said his client accepted he would be jailed, adding: "It perhaps is easy to underestimate prolonged imprisonment in what is [for him] still a foreign country, with limited English, no visitors, and since October of last year under covid conditions for the best part. That's not to excuse the defendant's conduct in this case."
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He said: "He's a young man of previous good character. It's clear he's found it difficult to come to terms with what he actually did. But accept that behaviour does. He doesn't have derogatory attitudes towards women."
Recorder Harris said: "It's difficult to accept that." Mr Heckle said drink and drugs featured in both incidents and Al-Razawe had little or no recollection of the first.
He said his client left Syria in 2014 due to the war, in circumstances similar to the present situation in Ukraine. Recorder Harris said: "This isn't about that. This is about his behaviour towards women here."
Mr Heckle said Al-Razawe worked at a Mercedes factory in Stuttgart but was then jailed in Germany, over "something that went on in Syria", which prompted him to move to England.He said Al-Razawe's immigration status would now be a matter for the Home Office, but "he's done himself no favours".
Recorder Harris said he was satisfied having read a pre-sentence report that Al-Razawe had "no insight or empathy". The judge agreed he posed "a high risk of causing serious harm to young women".
He told him: "You targeted three young vulnerable women and tried to treat them as your own sexual commodities. They were to be abused by you, for your own pleasure. It's clear you have a predatory sexual approach to women, with no regard for their rights."
He said Al-Razawe "terrified" his first two victims and the sex attack on the third victim was "humiliating and degrading". Recorder Harris said he then committed "a vicious assault leaving a long lasting scar on the victim's breast".
The judge jailed him for three years. He said Al-Razawe would serve half of his sentence in prison, before the Home Office would decide his future.
Recorder Harris said: "I have no power to order your deportation. But I don't want to leave this case without commenting that I find your presence in this country for the reasons given to be detrimental to the community and you are a danger to women."
He ordered Al-Razawe to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.
Anyone with information or wants to report a sexual offence is asked to call 101 where you will be spoken to by specially trained officers. Or you can pass information to Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
Support for victims is also available through the registered charity the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre Cheshire and Merseyside, who can be contacted on 01925 221 546 or 0330 363 0063 or Rape and Sexual Assault Merseyside (RASA) on 0151 558 1801. In an emergency, always call 999.
