Nigerian government official's son, 26, raped and killed a high-class escort just weeks after arriving in Scotland for university

  
Bala Chinda, 26, raped and killed high-class escort Jessica McGraa, 37, in February 2016, just a few weeks after he arrived in Scotland to study at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. He was sentenced to live in jail for the killing on Friday

The son of a Nigerian government official was yesterday jailed for life after raping and murdering a £1,800-a-night high-class escort.

Bala Chinda killed Jessica McGraa only a few weeks after he arrived in Scotland to study at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

The 37-year-old £200-an-hour sex worker's partially clothed body was found the following day in the bedroom of a flat she had rented in the city's Union Terrace.

Extensive police investigations carefully pieced together the call girl's last movements following the grim discovery on February 12, 2016.

CCTV footage showed she had travelled to Chinda's student accommodation in the city's King Street with him in a taxi before they returned to her apartment a short time later.

Miss McGraa, also Nigerian, made her last call on her mobile phone a few minutes before surveillance cameras recorded Chinda, 26, walking down the street away from her flat.

Yesterday a jury of eight women and seven men unanimously found Chinda guilty of murdering Miss McGraa in the city centre flat.

They took more than six hours to reach their verdict and also found him guilty of raping the mother of one and stealing her two mobile phones in an attempt to defeat the ends of justice.