12-Year-Old Girl 'Strangled and Assaulted in Daylight Attack by Two Men'

A YOUNG girl was strangled and raped in a broad daylight attack after being “targeted” by two men, a court heard.

Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, allegedly raped, sexually assaulted and took indecent images of the 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton, .

The girl was allegedly raped in NuneatonCredit: Alamy

His co-defendant Mohammad Kabir, 24, is accused of grabbing her by the neck with the intention of taking her away to commit a sexual offence.

Jurors heard how both men “targeted” the youngster after spotting her near a park in the town last summer.

Kabir first approached her, put his hands around her neck and attempted to get her to come with him, it is alleged.

Prosecutor Daniel Oscroft said: “This case concerns two men who both targeted a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton in the early evening of Tuesday the 22nd of July 2025, a light summer evening.

“Mohammad Kabir did so by trying to get her to come with him – which is the attempted abduction of a child – and also grabbing her by the neck, strangling her.

“This is a legal definition, it doesn’t necessarily mean he choked her.

“The prosecution suggests that Mohammad Kabir, when he tried to take her away, can only have had some sexual purpose. What alternative could there have been?”

The heard that while she did not go with Kabir, his friend Mulakhil waited in the area for a few hours.

He then allegedly approached the girl and “led her away” to a secluded cul-de-sac where he raped her.

Jurors heard that Mulakhil took indecent images of the teen, which were later found on his phone.

After the attack, he went with her to a corner shop, where he bought two cans of Red Bull, the court was told.

Mr Oscroft said she was eventually found in a local park and told an adult: “He raped me.”

He added: “She appeared distressed, and apparently scanning the bushes, asking where ‘he’ has gone, and saying ‘he’ is coming for her.

“She immediately disclosed that she had been sexually assaulted.

“While she didn’t go into the level of significant detail that a later video interview would reveal, it was clear at that stage that something significant had happened.”

Mulakhil, whose DNA was found on the girl, later told he met the girl twice that day and said he believed she looked in her twenties.

He also denied abducting her and said sexual activity that did take place was consensual and “initiated” by the youngster.

Mr Oscroft continued: “The prosecution say that it would be obvious to anyone that she was a very young, vulnerable child.

“She was obviously immature.”

Mulakhil, of no fixed abode, denies child abduction, two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and taking indecent photographs of a child.

Jurors were told he has pleaded guilty to a charge of oral rape of the 12-year-old.

Kabir, also of no fixed address, denies intentional strangulation, committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence and attempting to take a child.

The trial continues.