John Ashby, 32, admitted charges of rape, robbery, intentional strangulation and religiously aggravated assault at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday.
Ashby, of no fixed abode, asked to see his barrister and changed his pleas around an hour after being sworn at and told to "sort your s*** out" by a member of the public who approached the dock.
The outburst, which the judge described as an "ugly incident", occurred after Ashby began mumbling during the Crown's evidence.
His victim, a Sikh woman who was hit with a stick, had been due to enter the witness box to give evidence against Ashby later on Tuesday.
Opening the case for the Crown on Monday, prosecution KC Phil Bradley said Ashby "targeted" the woman when he saw her on a bus and followed her to her home in Walsall on foot last October.
Adjourning the case for sentence on Friday, Mr Justice Pepperall warned Ashby that he was considering the imposition of a life sentence.
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Extracts from "harrowing" body-worn police footage showing the young woman, who was in court to see Ashby change his pleas, had been played to the jury, during which she was comforted by a female officer and said her attacker had called her a "bloody Muslim b****".
The woman told police she had been raped in a bathroom by the intruder, who claimed to be a "British master".
In a video interview played to the trial, the complainant told police: "He had a stick in his hand. I said 'who are you' and I started screaming.
"He switched off the light. He said 'I just want fun with you'. He said 'you are a f****** Muslim b****', I said 'I am not a Muslim, I am a Sikh'."
Prosecutors told the court there could be no doubt that Ashby was the man who attacked the woman, citing DNA evidence, fingerprints found on a vape and the fact he was pointed out by the victim at an identity parade.
CCTV footage also placed Ashby near the scene, where he picked up the two-foot-long piece of wood.
After Ashby's guilty pleas, the judge said: "It seems to me that a stranger who breaks into a woman's house, who commits these offences and does so expressing hostility to her on the basis of her presumed religion is a dangerous person.
"I don't think I need a report to tell me that.
"I will be considering very carefully whether a life sentence is the right sentence in this case."
Addressing Ashby directly, he said: "As I have already made clear, it seems to me that somebody who commits offences in these circumstances is a dangerous individual.
"The court must have in its mind whether or not a life sentence is the appropriate sentence."
Mr Justice Pepperall praised the victim for her "great bravery" in coming into court, accompanied by her partner, to see Ashby admit his guilt.
Commenting on the inquiry, Rav Dhillon of the Crown Prosecution Service said: "This was a deeply disturbing attack driven by religious hatred, carried out against an innocent woman in her own home, where she would expect to feel safest.
"The CPS worked closely together with West Midlands Police to build a robust case which included CCTV footage, DNA evidence and witness testimony, and the strength of that evidence left the defendant no choice but to plead guilty.
"Our thoughts are with the victim, and we hope this outcome brings her some measure of justice."
Gabrielle Carrington, 29, allegedly tried to kill Klaudia Zakrzewska, an Instagram influencer, outside the Inca nightclub in Soho, London, at 4.30am on Sunday.
She is accused of dangerous driving, being nearly twice the drink-drive limit, and causing serious injuries to two other people - a third woman and a security guard.
Carrington, who has more than 365,000 followers on Instagram, made it to the X Factor live finals in 2013 as a member of the trio Miss Dynamix.
At Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, the judge ordered that she be held in prison until the next court hearing at the Old Bailey on 19 May.
Footage of the incident shared online shows a woman getting into a black Mercedes before it drives forward, striking Ms Zakrzewska, who goes under the vehicle.
Outlining the allegations, prosecutor Rizwan Amin told the court: "The scene can only be described as lots of people shouting, it could be described as a melee, so to speak.
"Many individuals who were there were from a nearby nightclub including security staff members.
"The full extent of the incident wasn't appreciated at the time officers had attended.
"Further checks of CCTV show that Ms Carrington had arrived in Argyll Street in her car, which was nearby to the Inca nightclub.
"During this time, she seemed to have an altercation with a male as she exited her car.
"This altercation escalated, involving several other members of the public. Security staff tried to intervene to separate those involved. Ms Carrington was then seen to re-enter the vehicle."
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Mr Amin said the vehicle "immediately moved off and sharply mounted the pavement".
He continued: "During this manoeuvre, the vehicle has struck Ms Zakrzewska who was positioned to the front side of the vehicle and she was dragged forwards and dropped between the vehicle and a metal bike rack.
"As the vehicle kept moving forward, it fully took her underneath the vehicle and at the same time had struck a security member of staff, Anoush Chyche, who was on the pavement."
It is said Carrington reversed the car backwards as Ms Zakrzewska emerged from under the vehicle.
"During the manoeuvre, a Ms Latisha Armstrong was also hit by the vehicle and suffered a fractured scaphoid bone in her wrist area," said Mr Amin.
Carrington, of Broadfield Road, Manchester, has been charged with attempted murder, causing grievous bodily harm with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, dangerous driving, and drink driving.
She did not enter any pleas during the court hearing.
Ms Zakrzewska remains in a life-threatening condition in hospital, the Metropolitan Police said on Monday evening.
Mr Chyche, in his 50s, suffered "life-changing injuries", the force added.
According to the court charges, Carrington had 61 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath when she tested after the incident; the legal limit is 35.
Leo was speaking in Equatorial Guinea and his comments appear to be another slight against Donald Trump, who has started a war with Iran and deposed the Venezuelan president.
Mr Trump recently lashed out at the Pope for criticising his policies, but Leo said last week he did not want to get in a debate with the US president.
Speaking today, the Pontiff said: "The destiny of humanity risks being tragically compromised without a change of direction in the assumption of political responsibility and without respect for institutions and international agreements."
"His [God's] holy name must not be profaned by the will to dominate, by arrogance or by discrimination. Above all, it must never be invoked to justify choices and actions of death," the Pope added.
The remark was similar to others in March when he said God rejected prayers from leaders with "hands full of blood".
Many saw it as criticism of US defence secretary Pete Hegseth for using Christian language to justify the Iran war.
Leo's comments on Tuesday also came as President Trump was due to host a livestreamed Bible reading at the White House.
Equatorial Guinea's president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, welcomed the Pope on his first day in the tiny West African nation.
More than 70% of its 1.8 million people identify as Catholic.
The Pope is on a 10-day tour of Africa and has used the spotlight to speak more forcefully on war, inequality and global leadership.
In Cameroon last week, he said "a handful of tyrants" were ravaging the world with war, and yesterday in Angola warned of people being "exploited by authoritarians and defrauded by the rich".
The irony is that Equatorial Guinea's president, who's been in power for 46 years, has been accused of being one of the region's most repressive leaders.
However, his government denies claims of human rights abuses and corruption.
A human rights lawyer and activist from Equatorial Guinea, Tutu Alicante, said the Pope's visit was a chance "to affirm, clearly and convincingly, that human dignity, justice, and accountability are not optional, but essential responsibilities of governance".
On Wednesday, the Pontiff is due to visit a detention centre that Amnesty International says is one of three where people are often held for years without access to lawyers or their families.
He will also pray at a military barracks where more than 100 people were killed by a series of explosions in 2021.
Images from the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, prison in Tecoluca show rows of gang members in the court hearing.
The group is accused of more than 47,000 crimes committed between 2012 and 2022, according to a statement from the El Salvador Attorney General's Office.
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A post from the attorney general's office on X says charges against the group also include extortion and that the defendants include those alleged to have been involved in a wave of gang violence in March 2022.
The violence led Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to declare a state of emergency, which is still in place.
In total, the attorney general's office said that 413 MS-13 members are already in prison, and that another 73 have active arrest warrants.
The international criminal gang was originally formed on the street corners of Los Angeles and only spread when members were deported from the US back to Central America.
US President Donald Trump designated MS-13 as a terrorist organisation last year, and his administration has made deportation agreements with El Salvador to exchange prisoners affiliated with the gang and others.
The agreement, part of the US's crackdown on illegal immigration, made headlines with the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was mistakenly deported, detained in CECOT and then returned to the US.
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United Nations experts have criticised El Salvador's use of mass trials, introduced in 2023, saying that they "undermine the exercise of the right to defence and the presumption of innocence of detainees".
Elsewhere, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report that El Salvador's mass imprisonment policy had raised the prison population to an estimated 118,000 detainees.
It said this is more than double capacity, "significantly worsening already poor prison conditions", and added that "many detainees have no apparent connections to gang-related violence".
Sky Sports News understands the idea was proposed by refereeing governing body PGMO.
But after a demo last month, there will continue to be no VAR in the EFL next season, just goal-line technology in the Championship.
Goal-line technology, which judges if the ball has crossed the goal line, will continue and has been in place in the Championship for a number of years.
VAR (video assistant referee) was introduced in the Premier League in the 2019/20 season to check key moments such as goals, penalties and red cards.
It remains very controversial and many fans say it's made matches less enjoyable.
Players delaying celebrations and standing around while video is checked for a potential foul has become a regular part of matches.
A survey of 8,000 fans last month by the Football Supporters' Association found 75% were against VAR and 90% disagreed it had improved the Premier League match-day experience.
Nonetheless, the game's lawmakers have extended VAR's remit and from this summer competitions will have the option of using it to check corners.