Student serial rapist requests chemical castration in bid to avoid life sentence

Zou studied in the UK and Ireland and may have had up to 60 victims

Zhenhao Zou drugged the women kept ‘souvenirs’. Photo: Reuters

Max Stephens
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One of Britain’s most prolific serial rapists offered to undergo chemical castration in the hope of avoiding a life sentence.

Zhenhao Zou, a Chinese PHD student at University College London, was sentenced to 24 years in prison yesterday for drugging and sexually assaulting 10 women. But it is thought the number of victims could be as high as 60.