Footage Filmed by 15-Year-Old Girl as She Was Snatched From a Park and Raped by Two Teenage Afghan Asylum Seekers

Two teenage asylum seekers were jailed yesterday for raping a schoolgirl who filmed herself being snatched in footage so ‘horrific’, one of their lawyers feared it would cause riots if it went public.

Afghans Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, had arrived only months earlier in small boats before assaulting the 15-year-old in a park on May 10.

Phone footage captured by the victim was so appalling that even one of the boy’s own barristers warned it would lead to ‘disorder’ if ‘the general public were exposed’ to it.

In the distressing three-minute clip, the girl could be heard crying ‘you’re going to rape me’ as she was dragged away from where she had been drinking with friends in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

The footage, played at Warwick Crown Court yesterday, also showed her weeping, screaming ‘help’ and begging not to be taken to the park.

She was forced to perform a sex act on the boys in a secluded area, before she escaped and filmed more clips describing her ordeal. {snip}

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Jailing Jahanzeb for ten years and eight months, and Niazal for nine years and ten months, Judge Sylvia de Bertodano also accepted a legal challenge mounted by the Daily Mail which means they can be named for the first time. She said they had ‘betrayed the interests’ of genuine refugees and ‘should feel a deep and lasting sense of shame’.

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Even Niazal’s own lawyer Joshua Radcliffe called the phone footage ‘genuinely horrific’, adding: ‘I have no doubt that if the general public were exposed to that, we would have disorder on our hands.’

Robert Holt, defending Jahanzeb, went further by asking the judge to stop the press from even being able to say the boys were Afghan asylum seekers.

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The asylum seekers were living in taxpayer-funded houses at the time of the attack, having arrived in the UK by small boats as unaccompanied children.

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