AN Afghan migrant who abducted and raped a 12-year-old girl four months after coming to Britain has been jailed.
Ahmad Mulakhil’s crimes sparked fury and protests after he laughed as he raped and took indecent images of the schoolgirl.
Ahmad Mulakhil abducted and raped a 12-year-old girlCredit: PA
His crimes sparked fury and protests in NuneatonCredit: PA
The 23-year-old was convicted in February of child abduction, taking an indecent video of a child, rape and two counts of sexual assault.
He admitted a further rape charge before his trial.
Mulakhil was today sentenced to 15 years in jail at Warwick Crown Court.
During his 10-day trial, jurors were told he arrived in the UK four months before the rapes.
He had made an immigration application linked to “problems” he had experienced in Afghanistan, Warwick Crown Court heard.
Mulakhil had been identified by police after he used his Home Office-issued debit card to buy the girl a drink after the rape.
His sick crimes sparked protests last in Nuneaton, .
The case prompted changes to guidance on reporting the nationality and status of offenders, according to the NPCC.
The guidance encourages forces to disclose a suspect’s ethnicity and nationality when there is a policing purpose to do so in high profile cases.
This could include to reduce the risk to public safety, where there are high levels of mis or disinformation about a particular incident, or in cases of significant public interest.
The court heard that the Afghan migrant took the child to a quiet cul-de-sac in the Warwickshire town and raped and sexually assaulted her.
The trial heard how he first spotted the girl playing on swings in a park playground.
Mulakhil approached her later the same day elsewhere in the town.
CCTV captured the pair talking, with the victim overheard telling him she was 19.
Mulakhil, whose was found on the girl, later told he met the girl twice that day and said he believed she looked in her twenties.
He had told the court he did not force the girl to do anything, and did not threaten her family, but had filmed her, at her insistence, during a brief period of sexual activity.
During the trial, Prosecutor Daniel Oscroft described Mulakhil’s attempts to blame his victim for what happened as “stomach-churning” and “pretty revolting”.
During his closing speech to the trial jury, Mr Oscroft said of Mulakhil: “There was no hint in the evidence he gave of any pause for reflection or to consider that in retrospect he made a mistake.”
Anti-immigration protesters in WarwickshireCredit: PA 
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