Jail for "savage" Rotherham rapist Kings Dimba over relentless and violent attacks
A “savage” and violent rapist deemed to pose a substantial risk to others has been jailed.
21-year-old Kings Dimba will be nearing his 40s by the time his 17-year sentence for a string of violent and sexual offences, including multiple counts of rape, comes to an end.
In a sentencing hearing on Friday, February 27, 2026, Judge Michael Slater jailed Dimba for 13 years.
He ruled that Dimba’s sentence should not end there, however, such is the risk he poses to members of the public.
Judge Slater therefore made Dimba the subject of a four-year extended licence, bringing his total sentence to one of 17 years.
“I do find you to be dangerous, as defined in sentencing legislation. Namely that you pose a significant risk of serious harm to members of the public, occasioned by the commission of further specified offences,” Judge Slater told Dimba.
All of Dimba’s heinous offences were committed against the same woman, who is entitled to lifelong anonymity.
Judge Slater told Dimba: “By your own admissions, and the verdicts of the jury, you subjected [the complainant] to savage and relentless....violent, sexual and physical abuse.”
In an affecting statement read to Sheffield Crown Court earlier in the week, the complainant described how Dimba’s attacks had pushed her to self-harm and even a suicide attempt.
“This is not because I wanted to die but because I wanted to escape the pain and suffering,” she said.
The young woman also detailed how she had lost her sense of self, and ability to trust her own judgement, in the wake of Dimba’s heinous crimes.
Judge Slater continued: “In her victim impact statement, she ablely and articulately expressed the lasting effects your behaviour has had on her life, and that of her family and friends.”
Dimba admitted four offences committed against the complainant, including ones of violence such as intentional strangulation, suffocation and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He denied raping her multiple times and sharing intimate photographs of her online, however, putting her through the ordeal of a trial.
Jurors unanimously rejected Dimba’s account, however, to convict him of a total of six sex offences, and he was brought before Judge Slater to be sentenced for all 10 crimes.
Friday’s hearing was the second time Dimba was brought before Judge Slater, following a 2021 conviction for unlawful wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Judge Slater said he took the “exceptional” step of imposing a less serious sentence of a two-year detention and training order on that occasion, after being made aware of his “family challenges and troubled background.”
“That aspect of the situation has been repeated [in mitigation] in relation to these grave offences, for which you now fall to be sentenced,” Judge Slater said.
He added, however, that unlike 2021 - when he was persuaded that he should give “particular weight” to Dimba’s troubled background when arriving at the correct sentence - no such weight would be placed upon that aspect of Dimba’s mitigation now.
Judge Slater said he had taken other aspects of Dimba’s mitigation, such as his autism diagnosis and family references which speak to a different side to his character, into consideration.
He acknowledged defence submissions around Dimba’s young age, but after observing him during the trial, found him to possess the “necessary maturity to fully comprehend and understand the consequences” of his offences.
Judge Slater also noted that irrespective of whether Dimba committed the offences impulsively, as has been suggested by defence counsel, he is still “mature and capable enough to understand the difference between right and wrong.”
He said Dimba, in his view, was “fixed” in his resolve to commit the most “abhorrent” offences of rape, amongst the 10 crimes he had been convicted of.
In addition to Dimba’s 17-year sentence, Judge Slater also granted a restraining order, prohibiting Dimba from contacting the complainant by any means until further order of the court.
He made Dimba the subject of a sexual harm prevention order, also to run until further order of the court, as part of which he will be required to inform anyone with whom he enters into a sexual relationship of his previous convictions.
Dimba will also be required to inform his local police offender manager of the existence of such relationships.