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A sexual predator who was deported after raping an 18-year-old has been caught living in Essex after sneaking back onto British soil.

Blerim Hajdarmataj, who was working as a cleaner, launched a twisted attack on the girl after a chance meeting at a Chelmsford bar in September 2014.

The 35-year-old invited the young woman back to his home, and although she initially refused, she woke the following day in his bed.

The victim was undressed with scratches, bruises and bite marks on her body – and also felt the room was spinning.

She fled the property and managed to flag down a passing motorist for help as sexual predator Hajdarmataj chased her.

The rapist, who uses the aliases Ben Matka and Rinor Hajdarmataj, later disappeared during his 2016 court case, and was convicted in his absence.

He was later found living in Kosovo after being traced to Albania and brought back to the UK under a European arrest warrant to be sentenced.

In 2017, Detective Inspector Terry Balding said: 'Hajdarmataj took advantage of a vulnerable woman in the most horrendous and vile way.

'He has shown no remorse for his actions, which have had a lasting effect on the victim. By fleeing the country during the trial, he put her through more fear and pain.'

Blerim Hajdarmataj who was deported after raping an 18-year-old has been caught living in Essex after sneaking back onto British soil

But despite being deported in 2019, Hajdarmataj was found living in Rayleigh, Essex, in July of this year.

On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to knowingly entering the UK in breach of a deportation order and breaching his sex offender notification requirements by failing to inform police of his return and new address at Basildon Crown Court.

Judge Richard Conley sentenced Hajdarmataj to 16 months behind bars, as well as 12 months to run concurrently for returning to the UK in violation of a deportation order.

A 12-month sentence automatically triggers deportation proceedings however this can be appealed under human rights law.