UK: 2 Teen Migrants Jailed for Rape

Two teenage asylum seekers from Afghanistan raped a 15-year-old schoolgirl months after arriving in the UK on small boats.

Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, who both crossed the Channel as unaccompanied minors, attacked the girl in a park in Leamington Spa in May.

The 17-year-olds were living in taxpayer-funded accommodation in the affluent Warwickshire town at the time.

Their victim managed to record the start and aftermath of the “genuinely horrific” attack on her mobile phone after being separated from her friends.

Her attackers each admitted a single charge of rape of a child under 16 when they appeared before magistrates in Coventry in October.

Jahanzeb was jailed for ten years and eight months while Niazal was handed a term of nine years and ten months.

Abducted in public park

Shawn Williams, prosecuting, said the girl was attacked in Newbold Comyn, a park popular with families and dog walkers.

He said she had been drinking vodka with friends and was “abducted” by Jahanzeb before being taken into a secluded area.

The Afghan teenager then rang his friend Niazal, telling him to “come quick” before the pair forced their victim to perform oral sex on them.

During the attack, the girl begged a female passer-by for help but she did not come to her aid.

The girl eventually escaped and was helped by a stranger who rang 999.

Williams said the distressed girl recorded the moment she was “abducted” by Jahanzeb, and filmed again after the attack.

Williams said: “The video footage is of a highly distressing nature. She is heard explicitly saying ‘you are going to rape me, let me go’.

“During the video Jahanzeb is heard telling her to shush. He can be seen to put his hand over her mouth, presumably in an effort to silence her. She recalls being terrified and wanting the ordeal to be over quickly.”

The court heard the girl was forced to her knees by the pair and attacked. “There was no way either defendant could have believed she was consenting,” added Mr Williams.

Disturbing video filmed by the girl in the lead-up to the attack was played to the court in which she repeatedly screams: “Help, I don’t want to go to the park.”

At one point a woman is heard asking: “Are you alright?”

The girl replies: “No. Help me. Please help me. So many people have walked past me. I want to go home. Please, please. Help me, help me. You’re going to rape me.”

Grainy CCTV footage showed the girl being “escorted” into the secluded area by the two defendants.

‘Why is no one helping me?’

Williams said the girl “eventually managed to get away” and “recorded several selfie-type videos, demonstrating extreme distress ... crying and hyperventilating”.

In a video after the rape, she could be heard sobbing: “Oh my god, I’ve just got f------ kidnapped.

“I thought I was going to be dead. Every single one of these people are driving past me. Help me, someone, please, please help me. Why is no one helping me? Please, someone.”