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A Chinese PhD student convicted of drugging and raping 10 women in London and China is feared to have targeted more than 50 more potential victims. “Persistent sexual predator” Zhenhao Zou, 27, had presented himself as a “smart and charming young man”,

A Chinese PhD student was found guilty Wednesday in a London court of drugging and raping 10 women in England and China, as police warned there could be more than 50 other victims.

University College London (UCL) has released a statement after one its former students was found guilty of raping and drugging 10 women. Zhenhao Zou was a PhD student studying mechanical engineering at the institution.

He studied part his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Queen’s University Belfast from 2017 to 2019. He was an exchange student from the sister university Guangdong University of Technology. Zou then moved to London to do a Master’s and PhD in the same subject at UCL. Zhenhao Zou is no longer a student at UCL.

Described in court as a calculating predator, Zou carried out the attacks between September 2019 and May 2023 while pursuing his PhD at University College London (UCL).

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Two of his victims were attacked in London, when Zou was living in student accommodation in Bloomsbury and at a £4,000-a-month rented apartment in Elephant and Castle. Eight more women were attacked in China during Zou’s trips home, in offences spanning from 2019 to May 2023.