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An Afghan asylum-seeker has been jailed for twice-raping a ‘vulnerable’ 12 year-old Albanian refugee living in the same Home Office-funded hotel.
Sakhidad Ahadi, 25, who continues to lie about his age and was deemed ‘dangerous’ by the judge, received twelve years imprisonment after grooming the young girl and coaxing her into his room.
He is determined to pursue a life in the UK, claiming he was shot by the Taliban when he refused to be recruited, having already endured the murder of his father at the hands of the country’s rulers.
The girl and her brother had been brought to the UK by their mother and the family were accommodated at a hotel in south London.
Ahadi pleaded guilty to one count of raping the girl and a Croydon Crown Court jury convicted him on a second count of raping her on the same occasion between December 22, 2022 and January 1, 2023.
He claimed she consented to sex and he believed she was 19 years old, with his lawyer Lisa Wilson submitting: ‘Perceiving age may not be so clear to someone who has grown up in mountainous Afghanistan.’…
Judge Anthony Dunne told Ahadi, wearing a grey tracksuit: ‘You touched her and took her pants off and you raped her first when she was face-down and a medical examination revealed you tore her….
‘It has been said your cultural background made it impossible for you to know she was twelve. I reject that as implausible….
Ahadi continues to lie he is only twenty years-old, but Judge Dunne confirmed: ‘The records of the relevant authorities show that he is twenty-five years-old….
An Afghan asylum-seeker has been jailed for twice-raping a ‘vulnerable’ 12 year-old Albanian refugee living in the same Home Office-funded hotel.
Sakhidad Ahadi, 25, who continues to lie about his age and was deemed ‘dangerous’ by the judge, received twelve years imprisonment after grooming the young girl and coaxing her into his room.
He is determined to pursue a life in the UK, claiming he was shot by the Taliban when he refused to be recruited, having already endured the murder of his father at the hands of the country’s rulers.
The girl and her brother had been brought to the UK by their mother and the family were accommodated at a hotel in south London.
Ahadi pleaded guilty to one count of raping the girl and a Croydon Crown Court jury convicted him on a second count of raping her on the same occasion between December 22, 2022 and January 1, 2023.
He claimed she consented to sex and he believed she was 19 years old, with his lawyer Lisa Wilson submitting: ‘Perceiving age may not be so clear to someone who has grown up in mountainous Afghanistan.’…
Judge Anthony Dunne told Ahadi, wearing a grey tracksuit: ‘You touched her and took her pants off and you raped her first when she was face-down and a medical examination revealed you tore her….
‘It has been said your cultural background made it impossible for you to know she was twelve. I reject that as implausible….
Ahadi continues to lie he is only twenty years-old, but Judge Dunne confirmed: ‘The records of the relevant authorities show that he is twenty-five years-old….