A predator who killed a UK health worker by repeatedly raping her until she had a heart attack has been jailed for life.
Mohamed Iidow, 35, was seen on CCTV prowling Southall Park, west London, looking for a vulnerable woman to attack before approaching Natalie Shotter, who had passed out on one of the benches.
The cameras also captured the depraved abuse that followed as Iidow manoeuvred the 37-year-old mum-of-three’s ‘deeply unconscious’ body to attack her ‘again and again’ for more than 15 minutes.
Natalie’s mum, Dr Cas Shotter Weetman, a NHS cardiology practitioner, said: ‘We need to change our thoughts about how we behave.
‘There are people out there who continue to act in a very deviant and horrendous way and think that they can get away with it.’
In a moving victim impact statement, she described the horrific ordeal of having to watch her daughter being raped, adding: ‘No mother should ever have to see that.
‘Hearing medical evidence of how you caused my daughter’s death destroyed my family.
‘I felt such anger my daughter had gone to the park on a night out enjoying herself and was assaulted by a predator.
‘No woman should have to fear going to a park and sitting on a bench- it is disgusting.’
Dr Shotter Weetman described how Natalie had been active in a local theatre group and at the age of 12 she starred on the West End in Les Miserables as the understudy to the actor playing Éponine.
She attended theatre school and had a ‘natural flair’ for singing, acting and comedy and later attended the BRIT School in Croydon.
‘[Natalie] had opportunities to work in theatre and television and loved to sing and would do so everywhere,’ her mother said.
‘Nat worked part time in a restaurant from age of 17 then had two sons who she loved so so much.
‘She worked as a volunteer for the British Heart Foundation and worked for the local Alzheimer’s society in their local forget-me-not memory cafe.
‘She was compassionate and had a good heart.
‘In her last job she worked in clinical administration in a local hospital. She was brilliant at her job and loved by those who worked with her.’
On Friday, Judge Richard Marks KC sentenced Iidow to life with a minimum term of 10 years and eight months.
He told Iidow that taking advantage of ‘exceptionally talented’ Ms Shotter when she was vulnerable and unconscious was ‘wicked and utterly reckless’.
During the trial, prosecutor Alison Morgan KC said Ms Shotter had died of a heart attack caused by Iidow raping her ‘again and again’.
Ms Shotter was found dead by a passer-by in the park in the early morning of July 17, 2021.
Swabs taken from her mouth area matched DNA samples taken from Iidow. He was arrested at his home on August 4, 2021, and claimed in his police interview the sexual activity was consensual.
