Kabiru Buraimoh

Introduction

Kabiru Jack Buraimoh, 29, formerly of Edinburgh, was jailed for eight years at the High Court in Edinburgh on Wednesday, 5 November 2026, for raping a woman in her own flat after letting himself in with a spare key while she was too drunk to consent. Buraimoh had denied raping the woman on 12 May 2024, but was convicted after a trial, and the judge told him his “continued denial of the offence and consequent lack of insight” were matters of concern at sentencing. He was placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

Background Information

Buraimoh, known as Jack, obtained a spare key to his victim’s Edinburgh flat — the detail that turned the offence from a break-in into a violation of a home he could enter at will. The woman told the court that on 11 May 2024, the evening before the rape, she went to the beach when the weather was good, then returned home and began drinking in the company of others. She said she was not a regular drinker at the time — she had drunk alcohol only twice in the previous year — but on this occasion became “very drunk.”

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Convicted after trial and jailed for eight years.

The next day, 12 May 2024, Buraimoh let himself into the woman’s flat using the spare key and raped her while she was incapable of consenting, the court heard. Sentencing, Lord Duthie said the complainer was “extremely vulnerable as a result of her intoxication and consequent inability to consent,” and that the offence was committed within the victim’s own home, where she was entitled to feel safe and secure.

The victim’s account to the court described consequences that persisted long after the attack: “Following the rape, the complainer was unable to return to her home,” the judge noted, adding he was satisfied the impact of the crime amounted to “severe psychological harm”, with the woman undergoing extensive treatment. The rape did not end with the night itself — it displaced her from her own home entirely.

Buraimoh denied the charge, but the High Court jury convicted him after a trial. At sentencing, Lord Duthie told him: “Your continued denial of the offence and consequent lack of insight are matters of concern,” before imposing the eight-year custodial term, placing Buraimoh on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely, and making non-harassment orders banning him from contacting or attempting to contact the victim and her children.

Public Reaction and Consequences

STV News covered the sentencing with the judge’s language front and centre — the intoxication-and-consent finding, the spare key, and the victim’s inability to return home. The case stands as a Scottish courts statement on consent: the offence required no violence beyond the act itself, because the victim’s drunkenness made consent impossible and the conviction rested on that incapacity, tried and affirmed by a jury.

No defence statement or family comment was reported. The court’s non-harassment orders extend the protection to the victim’s children as well, acknowledging that the attack’s reach covered her household.

Current Status

Buraimoh is serving an eight-year sentence imposed on 5 November 2026, is on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely, and is subject to non-harassment orders protecting the woman and her children. His trial denial — maintained through conviction and sentencing — drew the judge’s explicit concern about lack of insight, the standard aggravating posture for a prisoner entering the sex-offender treatment pathway still asserting innocence.

Impact on Their Career/Life

At 29, Buraimoh’s eight-year sentence will occupy his thirties, and the indefinite register notification will follow him for life after release. The conviction’s core facts — the spare key, the incapacitated victim, the home she could not return to — mark him as a perpetrator in the pattern Scottish judges weigh most heavily for release risk: intimate access, no insight, a victim still in treatment. For the woman, the sentence closes the legal case but not, per her own testimony, the displacement that followed the night of 12 May 2024.

Sources

• STV News, “Rapist who let himself into vulnerable woman’s home with spare key jailed.” source