UK court convicts Chinese student for drugging, raping 10 women

A Chinese PhD student has been found guilty by a court in London of drugging and raping 10 women in Britain and China.

Zhenhao Zou, 28, was convicted of the attacks between 2019 and 2023 following a month-long trial at Inner London Crown Court.

Jurors found Zou, a mechanical engineering student who was doing his PhD at University College London, raped three of the women in London, and seven in China.

Police have only been able to identify two of the victims.

He filmed nine of the attacks as “souvenirs” and kept a trophy box of women’s belongings. Jurors were given regular breaks as the troubling footage was shown to them.

Zou, who showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out in court, was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of possession of a controlled drug with intent to commit a sexual offence, namely butanediol.