His first victim was a 15-year-old girl who had been drinking with a friend when she met Osagie, who called himself Prince, in a Bolton town centre takeaway on the evening of November 29 2013. He invited them and their male friend back to his Derby Road home.
Sarah Johnston, prosecuting, said that on the way he stopped the taxi at a garage to buy more Jack Daniels and cigarettes. “It was clear that she (the victim) was highly intoxicated and you took advantage of that,” Judge Clayson told Osagie.
“You encouraged her to think she would be safe with you in the privacy of your own home.”
When the girl’s friends left the house to buy cigarettes, the court heard Osagie seized his opportunity, taking his reluctant visitor on a tour of his house before attacking her in his bedroom and forcing her down onto the bed.
She was crying, struggling and kicking out, but he put a hand over her mouth and raped her, ignoring her friends as they knocked on his front door.
Just over a year later, on January 24 2015, Osagie attacked a second girl, sexually assaulting her.
The court heard that the 16-year-old was also vulnerable and he got chatting to her in the L and B Afro Caribbean Bolton restaurant, where she had gone with a friend.
Judge Clayson was told that Osagie was persistent in his attentions towards her and, the next day, when he learned she and her friends had missed their bus home, asked her to meet him at the restaurant again, offering to pay for their taxi home.
But at the restaurant he managed to get her alone and touched her sexually all over her body.
“She was clearly frightened of you and crying,” Judge Clayson told Osagie.
He was finally tracked down by police who made enquires through the Whatsapp social media service.
Osagie pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault on February 2 - the day his trial was due to start. At the sentencing hearing Judge Clayson passed an extended sentence for public protection, telling Osagie: “I have no hesitation that you represent a substantial risk of serious harm to members of the public.”
As a result Osagie, of Holmeswood Road, Great Lever, will only be eligible to apply for parole two thirds of the way through his 10 year and nine month sentence and be subject to an additional three years on licence at the end of the prison term.
A sexual harm prevention order was made and he will be placed on the sex offenders’ register for life but the court heard that Osagie is likely to be automatically deported at the end of the prison sentence.
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