Akinsanya, 34, and Raji, 29, were sentenced at Inner London Crown Court after plying a 15-year-old girl with alcohol and drugs before raping her while she was unconscious.
The pair, both Nigerian nationals, targeted the victim after buying her drinks at Paddy’s Yard, an Irish pub in Brixton, south London, on 8 February last year.
They invited the girl and her friends back to Raji’s flat to smoke cannabis and dance.
The victim’s friends grew uncomfortable and tried to persuade her to leave with them, but she began blacking out and collapsed.
The court heard that the two men then subjected her to a prolonged sexual ordeal, with Raji filming the abuse.
In her victim impact statement, read to the court by prosecutor Diana Wilson, the girl said the attack had shattered her trust in people and ruined her school life.
“I was in Year 10 when I was raped – my school life was affected a lot,” she said.
“I didn’t want to go to my lessons. I find it hard to trust people. I’m in Year 11 now and I still feel like my school life is being affected by the rape.”
She has also stopped playing football – the only sport she enjoyed – because she lost all confidence.
When asked if she wanted to watch the video Raji had taken of her naked, she had to stop almost immediately, telling the court: “I found it too stressful.”
Describing her attackers, she said: “The men who did this to me are disgusting – I can’t find the words to describe them. These men must go to prison.”
Ms Wilson told the court the girl was “particularly vulnerable due to her personal circumstances” and had gone from being a sociable, outgoing teenager to someone who rarely leaves the house, struggles with schoolwork and feels unable to attend counselling.
“Alcohol was used to render her vulnerable,” she said, “and the effect of the alcohol was exploited by both of you. Whilst incapable, she was raped by both of you.”
Akinsanya, from South Croydon, was convicted of rape and jailed for 10 years.
Raji, from Brixton, was convicted of two counts of rape and one count of taking an indecent image of a child and jailed for 11 years.
Both men denied the charges.
Raji’s barrister, William Pope, asked the judge to consider his client’s previous good character and claimed Raji believed the girls had said they were over 18.
Judge David Richards rejected that, telling the court: “The whole tenor of that group is of schoolgirls. It should have been obvious they were underage.”
Akinsanya’s barrister, Anne Faul, described him as “a lost soul, somewhat vulnerable” and said he is partially paralysed from a previous attack, making prison harder for him.
Passing sentence, Judge Richards told the men: “The fact that you two abused her one after the other clearly aggravates the matter. She’s lost her self-confidence. She can no longer go out. She will live with this for the rest of her life.”







