Officers carried out an extensive trawl of CCTV and it was this footage, along with an Instagram message exchange with the victim, that led to Vikal being identified and arrested. 'He took advantage of an intoxicated and vulnerable young woman who became separated from her friends,' Woodland said.

Vikal, who had met the woman while she was on a night out with friends in the city on June 3, admitted rape, and was sentenced to six years and nine months in a young offenders' institution.ĭetective Constable Nick Woodland from South Wales Police said: 'Stranger attacks such as these are extremely unusual in Cardiff but in Preet Vikal we had a dangerous individual'. He continued to carry the victim to a property in the North Road area where he raped her during the early hours of June 4, 2022. Preet Vikal was seen in the footage carrying the 'intoxicated' woman in his arms and across his shoulders along King Edward VII Avenue and North Road, the South Wales Police said on Friday. A 20-year-old Indian student, who was captured on CCTV carrying a woman home to rape her last June, has been sentenced for more than six years, police said.

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