The Syrian-born convicted rapist who fled the country before he could be jailed has claimed that ‘all’ rape cases in which the defendant is from an ethnic minority result in guilty verdicts.

In an email sent to the Chronicle today (September 30), Sultan Amari has continued to protest his innocence, despite being found guilty earlier this week of twice raping a drunken student he picked up in his taxi in Chester.

The dad-of-one, of Chester Road in Flint, boarded a plane to Turkey midway through his trial, but now he has revealed his intention to appeal his conviction.

Insisting he has not ‘run away’, he said: “I am more than happy to come at any time.

“All I am asking is please provide me with a fair trial with the same level of play as the prosecution as it is stated in Article 6 of the Human Rights Act.”

The five-page document penned by 46-year-old Amari includes a section entitled ‘Comments for Politicians’, in which he says he was ‘treated as a criminal from day one of the accusation’.

“All rape cases involve ethnic minority seems to achieve a conviction,” he writes.

“This make me wonder is the verdict pre-determined. In my case the evidence is strikingly in my favour, how come I was convicted.”

Amari’s six-day trial at Warrington Crown Court heard that his victim flagged his cab down and within eight minutes they were back at a house he owned on Sealand Road.

There, they had consensual sex according to Amari -who was living at an address on Colwyn Close in Ellesmere Port at the time - but the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the jury she could not remember anything between leaving a city centre bar and waking up naked, with no idea where she was, and later experienced a flashback of lying face-down on a mattress with a man having intercourse with her.

But Amari claims in his email that all he needs is an opportunity to present ‘the truth’, backed up with ‘sound, proper and possibly scientific’ evidence.

He also states that he was unhappy with how his case was handled by his legal team both in the run-up to and during the trial.

“I have done nothing wrong to this girl or any other girl and I will never do anything to knowingly harm anyone as it is against my core beliefs and principles,” Amari adds.

“I always have been of good character and I always will try to be as best I can.”

The Chronicle has passed Sultan Amari's email to Cheshire Constabulary.