The Walsall Nightmare: John Ashby’s Racially Aggravated Rape of a Sikh Woman
In this gripping episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson uncovers the horrifying 2025 attack in Walsall, UK, where John Ashby followed a young Sikh woman home from a bus, broke into her house, and subjected her to a brutal, racially motivated rape filled with Islamophobic abuse. Mistaking her for Muslim, Ashby beat, strangled, and violated her in her own bathroom while declaring himself “the master.”
We explore Ashby’s disturbing background, his misogynistic online rants, recent release from a mental health unit, and the swift justice that led to his life sentence with a…
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