A STUDENT drug dealer preyed on vulnerable teenagers after giving them class A drugs, a court heard.

Northumbria University geography undergraduate Omar Sharif, 22, raped a girl while she was intoxicated and drove another 17-year-old, who owed him money for drugs, to an isolated spot in Seaham, and raped her twice in his Mercedes, Newcastle Crown Court was told.

Gavin Doig, prosecuting, said Sharif was “no ordinary student” and dealt ecstasy and Mkat for money, but gave it free to young women who caught his eye, with a view to sexually abusing them.

He said Sharif “treated the teenage girls with complete disrespect.”

His first victim was aged 18 when he sexually assaulted her in a bedroom at student accommodation in Sunderland after he gave her five or six lines of ecstasy, the court heard.

He is also charged with raping a vulnerable 17-year-old at a Travelodge in Sunderland after she sniffed what she told police was a “long line” of the class A drug. Mr Doig said: “She was in no fit state to consent.”

A third girl, aged 17, who bought ecstasy from him, claimed she was raped by Sharif in his car, and later by Sunderland men Luke Richardson, 20, of Ponden Hill, and Georgi Karaboykov, 34, of Horatio Street, and at a party hosted by Milagros Sanchez, 24, of Chester Road, Sunderland.

At the party in Sanchez’s flat in June last year, she was given free ecstasy and when her friend went to check on her she found Richardson getting dressed and the girl “stripped naked”, the court heard.

Georgi Karaboykov, 34, of Horatio Street, Sunderland, is then accused of going into the bedroom and raping her after finding her passed out on the bed. Sanchez, who denies a charge of facilitating sexual exploitation is accused of texting Karaboykov in Bulgarian earlier that day: “To let you know and make you happier, our guy has arranged two girls for now.”

Sharif’s brother Amer, 19, of Brunton Terrace, Sunderland, denies perverting the course of justice by trying to get people to lie to the police to weaken their case.

Omar Sharif denies rape, sexual assault, perverting the course of justice and drugs offences. Richardson and Karaboykov deny rape and sexual assault, and say what happened was consensual.

  • The trial continues.