A FAILED asylum seeker has been jailed for raping a woman outside a Huddersfield nightclub.

Algerian national Abdul Amouz, of Oakenbank Crescent, Lowerhouses, admitted two sex crimes on a 21-year-old woman in an alley close to the Tokyo nightclub on May 9.

Having originally denied the charges he confessed to the rape moments before a trial was due to begin.

Prosecutor, Tina Dempster, said Amouz, 19, was caught after he dropped his wallet containing ID as he fled the scene.

He was arrested and DNA tests of his semen were a match with traces on the victim.

Ms Dempster said the victim had been out socialising with friends around the bars in town and ended up at the Queen Street club, having consumed a significant amount of alcohol.

She was seen dancing with Amouz, who had arrived in the UK three months earlier, but then her friends noticed she was missing.

Ms Dempster said it was not clear how the victim had come to be outside with Amouz, but she was later seen staggering away from the club, gasping for breath and struggling to speak with blood on her face and swollen lips.

Witnesses told the police they saw Amouz hurrying away with his clothing in disarray, doing his trousers up.

As he rushed away he accidentally dropped his wallet, which was handed to the authorities.

The victim was taken to hospital and treated for minor scrapes.

Nursing staff described her as “incoherent” and “extremely distressed” and reported that she tried to rip her own dress off.

She told police she had little memory of the attack, but could feel that she had had sex and said her whole body was in pain.

James Doyle, mitigating, told Leeds Crown Court, his client had come from an abusive family environment.

He said his parents had been killed in an earthquake when he was 13 and he had been living in France and Belgium before coming to the UK in February.

And he said the attack was not in cold blood, but was an “impulsive act fuelled by an excess of alcohol” as his client was also very drunk.

Judge Rodney Grant said he accepted there were mitigating circumstances but said the prolonged nature of the attack was an aggravating factor.

And he said despite Amouz’s guilty plea, a report by the probation service highlighted he had failed to accept he had done anything wrong.

Quoting from the report, Judge Grant said there was “a high risk of harm to young females” that was “serious, violent and sexual”.

Amouz was given a four years and nine month sentence with an extended licence of four years on his release.

He will also be on the sex offenders register for life.