The University College London (UCL) PhD student Zhenhao Zou has been found guilty of 11 counts of rape, among other crimes. Here’s a complete timeline of the case of the UCL student rapist Zhenhao Zou, from the investigation to the trial.

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.

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.

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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.

A PhD student who has been convicted of drugging and raping 10 women "may turn out to be one of the most prolific sexual predators that we've ever seen in this country", according to the lead detective on the case.

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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Imperial College London (at number 14), University College London (UCL) (at 25), the London School of Economics (LSE) (36) and King’s College London (42) all made it into THE’s ranking this year. The UK has 10 distinguished unis on the list, including Oxford (joint second), Cambridge (fourth), Edinburgh (at 30) and Manchester (at 50).

A student has been found guilty of drugging and raping 10 women in the UK and China over a four-year period. Zhenhao Zou, 28, filmed himself sexually assaulting nine of his victims and kept the videos as souvenirs. Only two have been identified.

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