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A rapist who strangled and threatened to kill an 18-year-old woman hours after meeting her on a flatmate-finder app has been jailed for 12 years.

Mirza Begg showed his victim “a sinister-looking” cache of weaponry including knives, a sword and bullets, before raping and sexually assaulting her at his home in Birmingham last year.

Jurors convicted the 34-year-old, of Coventry Road, Small Heath , of rape in September after hearing he lured the teenager to his flat with the promise of allowing her to live there.

Begg, who claimed all sexual contact with the victim had been consensual, was also found guilty of two charges of assault by penetration, intentional strangulation, making threats with a bladed weapon, and assault.

Prosecutor Joshua Purser told Birmingham Crown Cou

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