An asylum seeker from Afghanistan has been jailed for twice raping a 12-year-old girl with learning disabilities in a London migrant hotel.
An asylum seeker from Afghanistan has been jailed for twice raping a 12-year-old girl with learning disabilities in a migrant hotel in London.
During the trial, Ahadi maintained that he was also 12 years old, despite evidence that he was in fact 25 years old. His lawyers also tried to argue that due to his upbringing in rural Afghanistan, he believed his young victim was 19 as “perceiving age may not be so clear to someone who has grown up in mountainous Afghanistan.” Judge Anthony Dunne said that he found this explanation “implausible”.
“She told you her real age and that she was twelve years old. She denied that she told you she was aged nineteen and her version of events have been proved. The jury concluded that she was telling the truth and that you were lying.
The girl victim, alongside her brother, was brought to the UK by their mother from their native Albania. According to prosecutors, the 12-year-old girl suffers from a learning disability, which they said made her even more vulnerable to grooming.
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