Foreign student jailed for sexual assault

A foreign student jailed in Melbourne for seven sexual assaults told the court he was upset at the way Australian women dressed and behaved.

Libyan Almahde Ahmad Atagore, 28, was sentenced to three years behind bars yesterday for sexual assaulting a number of young women in Melbourne in August and September last year, the Herald Sun reports.

Atagore was shocked by the cultural differences and felt isolated and depressed, particularly as he did not have a mosque nearby, said County Court Judge Margaret Rizkalla.

He told a psychiatrist he did not like how Australian women dressed, leaving him angry but also aroused.

He indecently assaulted four women outside the Mentone Hotel on two consecutive nights and also attacked two young girls, including a 13-year-old girl, while they were using an escalator at Flinders St station.

Atagore was ashamed and regretted his crimes, the judge said.