Asylum seeker who groomed and raped girl, 13, jailed
An asylum seeker has been sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for grooming and raping a 13-year-old girl. The court ordered that he face automatic deportation to Afghanistan following the completion of his sentence.
Why it matters
The case touches on sensitive intersections of immigration policy, child safety, and criminal justice.
Image source, Nottinghamshire Police Image caption, Abdul Khan was told he faces automatic deportation after serving his sentence
An asylum seeker who raped a 13-year-old girl after pretending to be a teenager on Snapchat has been jailed.
Abdul Khan attacked the girl in a nature reserve in Clifton, Nottingham, on 14 May last year.
Khan arrived in the UK in the back of a lorry in 2015, Nottingham Crown Court heard, and faces automatic deportation to Afghanistan after he has served two thirds of his sentence.
He was jailed for nine and a half years on Monday after he was convicted of two counts of rape, one count of sexual activity with a child, sexual communication with a child, meeting a child following grooming and perverting the course of justice.
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