THIS is the shocking moment a group of Afghan fiends who gang-raped a 17-year-old girl laughed and joked while fleeing the UK.
Mehrab Safi, 21, Awal Ahmadzai and Salman Habibkheil, both 19, and the schoolboy – then aged 16 – attacked the girl in Bristol after plying her with vodka.
The gang groomed their 17-year-old victim before launching a horrific assault at a Bristol property last November.
A court heard how Safi and Habibkheil ordered a taxi to bring the teenager from her home into the city before carrying out the sickening attack.
Just weeks later in December, three of the attackers fled the country.
Appalling mobile phone footage has now shown Safi, Ahmadzai, and Habibkheil appear to be in a celebratory mood during their getaway in the back of a lorry.
Habibkheil was seen making hand gestures to the camera and laughing, and Ahmadzai having a lie down in the video.
But their escape was cut short when French authorities discovered the men hiding in Calais.
The vile fiends were dragged back to the UK and subsequently convicted of rape and other offences following a trial at Bristol Crown Court earlier this year.
Sentencing the group yesterday, the judge stated that the harrowing ordeal of being repeatedly assaulted by multiple men in succession had left the young victim “broken beyond resistance”.
Safi, who was found guilty of one count of human trafficking and two charges of rape, was jailed for 15 years.
Habibkheil was convicted of one count of human trafficking and one charge of rape, while Ahmadzai was found guilty of one charge of rape and one of assault by penetration.
They were both sentenced to nine years in a youth detention centre.
The 17-year-old boy, who cannot legally be named, was convicted of one charge of rape and jailed for two years and seven months in a youth detention centre.
In a victim impact statement, the girl said the attack had left her “traumatised”.
She added: “If I ever leave the house, it is only with my best friend or mum. I would not be able to go out by myself, even the thought of that makes me panic.
“Generally my brain keeps blocking out the trauma that happened to me, but when I am feeling low emotionally it all comes back and makes me feel even worse.
“Sometimes I would dream about what happened, which I was not expecting – and I do not like those dreams at all.”
Jurors heard the girl had been out with a friend Christmas shopping when they got talking to Safi, who they had not met before.
He later asked her to add him on social media platform before requesting nude photographs of her on November 28.
Two days later, Safi arranged for a taxi to take her from her home in to Bristol in the early hours.
She was initially dropped off in an industrial area of the city, where Safi was waiting with Habibkheil, before they got into another taxi which took them to a house in the St Werburghs area.
Once there, she was provided with cigarettes and vodka before being raped by Safi and his co-defendants, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Jurors were told the sex attack ended when the girl’s mother contacted police.
Officers traced the girl to the house and arrested the 17-year-old defendant when he answered the door.
The three older co-accused fled the house as the police arrived and travelled to both Birmingham and London.
They were then returned to the UK and immediately arrested by the police on suspicion of rape.
