00:00Just after Zhao was found guilty at the inner London, Crown Court had drugging and raping
00:08ten women in both London and China. The Metropolitan Police launched an appeal for more potential
00:17victims to come forward. Jurors in his trial at the inner London Crown Court were told
00:23Zhao filmed his attacks as quote on quote souvenirs and kept a trophy box of women's
00:30belongings. There were also at the time 50 videos that were identified as further potential victims
00:40of Zhu's awful crimes. Police ultimately believe more than 50 other women may have fallen prey
00:47to the engineering student, which would make him one of the worst sex offenders the UK has
00:55ever seen. He had also been a student at Queen's University Belfast where he studied
01:01mechanical engineering. It's including other forces and indeed other jurisdictions.
01:07So as you may be aware, Zhao committed some of his offences here in the United Kingdom
01:12but also in China and in other parts of the world. We have victims and survivors who've
01:17contacted us from both England and China and from other jurisdictions as well and this is
01:22an international enquiry where we're liaising with victim survivors from across the globe
01:26to try to understand exactly what he may have done, when, where and to who, so we can bring
01:30him to justice for all of those crimes. We'll be working with each and every one of those
01:33individuals who's made contact with us and my thanks and heart goes out to them because
01:37ultimately they found the courage and the confidence to reach out to us, which is what
01:41we're always hoping for, but we'll now need to work with them, visit them perhaps wherever they
01:45are and understand exactly what may have happened to them. We can understand what crimes may have
01:49occurred and then of course we'll discuss that with the Crime Prosecution Service and if necessary
01:53bring further charges against Mr Zhao. We have victims reaching out to us from different parts
01:58of the globe at the moment. The primary places where we believe offending may have occurred at
02:03this time appears to be both in England here in London and over in China. We haven't had any
02:09victim survivors yet report an offence in Belfast but we're open-minded about the fact that given
02:14how active and prolific Zhao appears to have been with his awful offending, there's every prospect
02:18that he could have offended anywhere in the world, so we wouldn't want anyone to write off the fact
02:23they may have been a victim of his behaviour simply by virtue of the fact that from a certain place.
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