A RAPIST who attacked two women in separate assaults will serve a minimum of six years behind bars.

Allah Karam, aged 28, of Mancroft Avenue, Daubhill, was found guilty of four counts of rape, involving two women, following a trial at Bolton Crown Court in February.

Karam, an Iraqi Kurd who came to the UK seeking asylum in 2002, will be deported to serve the sentence in his native country.

Yesterday, Judge Timothy Clayson imposed an indeterminate sentence for public protection on Karam, telling him he will serve a minimum of six years and 236 day before his case can go before a parole board.

However, Judge Clayson warned the defendant that he would only be released when it was deemed that he was no longer a threat, adding: “Your character and attitude are in my view worryingly entrenched.

You do represent a significant risk of causing serious harm to members of the public.”

Judge Clayson added that he had caused “serious and enduring trauma”

to his victims, whom he degraded.

Karam, a factory worker, was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice after ringing a friend from prison and asking him to persuade one of the victims to drop her rape claims.

The trial heard that during one of the rapes he smoked cannabis and claimed to be God.

He raped one of his victims three times and the second on one occasion.

Michael Maher, prosecuting, told the jury that the defendant behaved “in a strange and dangerous manner; whose attitude, especially to women, is that they are little more than pawns for his sexual gratification.”

The jury heard that Karam targeted the women in their homes in May, 2007, and June, 2009.

Karam lived in Cheetham Hill and Wakefield before coming to Bolton.