Ahmad Mulakhil (Image: Warwickshire Police)
In the as soon as quiet residential cul-de-sacs of a center England city the simmering worries over migrant lodging erupted final summer time after a 12-year-old schoolgirl was kidnapped and raped by a predatory asylum seeker. Afghan Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, arrived illegally within the UK by small boat simply 4 months earlier than he subjected his younger sufferer to a harrowing ordeal that has left her life “in pieces”.
The intercourse beast’s concentrating on pursuit was captured in chilling doorbell digital camera footage after he noticed her taking part in on swings in a park and approached her, telling her “you’re very small,” earlier than demanded her telephone quantity. Despite the lady trying to rebuff his advances, even telling the migrant, “I don’t like you. I’m young. I’m a kid”, Mulakhil compelled her to a secluded, grassy space beside a row of garages. During an ordeal that CCTV proof confirmed lasted round 80 minutes, he threatened to kill her household as he repeatedly raped her.
Undated handout CCTV nonetheless issued by Warwickshire Police of Afghan nationwide Ahmad Mulakhil in a store (Image: PA)
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In a distressing assertion to police, the younger sufferer recounted the horror of the horrific assault, which has left her life shattered and sparked widespread protests throughout the Warwickshire city of Nuneaton.
She mentioned: “He was trying to strip my clothes off. He said nothing. He was laughing. I was saying get off me but he didn’t say anything, he just carried on.”
The wicked paedophile, who was in the present day jailed for15 years, even took indecent pictures of the kid throughout his assault.
Hundreds of individuals subsequently mounted an anti-immigration protest march that descended on Nuneaton Town Hall with individuals waving flags and chanting for harder motion to “stop the boats”.
Protesters outdoors Warwick Crown Court in Leamington Spa the place asylum seeker Ahmad Mulakhil, who abd (Image: PA)
The Escape and the Aspen Card Breakthrough
The lady’s prolonged nightmare solely ended when Mulakhil took her to a close-by comfort retailer to purchase a can of Red Bull. Whilst he was distracted paying on the until his sufferer seized her alternative to “run for her life”. She was subsequently discovered alone and distraught in one other close by park by an grownup she knew, who instantly contacted the police.
The buy of the high-caffeine power drink proved to be Mulakhil’s undoing. Police reviewing CCTV footage of the transaction had been capable of hint the cost again to a Home Office Aspen card issued in his identify.
These government-issued cost playing cards are supplied to asylum seekers awaiting a call on their standing, permitting them to buy fundamental requirements. They are sometimes topped up with £9.95 per week for these housed in totally catered resorts or £49.18 per week for people moved to self-catered lodging.
Video seize of protesters in Nuneaton. Anti-migrant protestors gathered in Nuneaton chanting “This is (Image: David Bass Photography / SWNS)
Using this electronic paper trail, officers tracked Mulakhil to his sparsely furnished bedroom in a Nuneaton house of multiple occupation, arresting him four days after the attack.
Warwickshire Police then sparked fury by refusing to confirm the ethnicity or immigration status of the man they had arrested – leading of claims of a cover-up that sparked further protest in the town.
During a ten-day trial at Warwick Crown Court, Mulakhil, assisted by a Farsi interpreter, attempted to claim that the sexual activity had been consensual and even claimed it had been initiated by the child. He admitted meeting her but told jurors he believed she was 19, a claim prosecutor Daniel Oscroft dismissed as an “obvious lie,” noting it would be “obvious to anyone that she was a very young, vulnerable child.”
A screen grab taken from CCTV dated 23/07/25 issued by Warwickshire Police of Ahmad Mulakhil and Moh (Image: PA)
Faced with damning evidence – including his DNA found on the girl’s neck and inside her shorts, as well as an indecent image discovered on his phone – Mulakhil’s pathetic defence crumbled.
Having already pleaded guilty to one count of oral rape before the trial, it took jurors seven hours and 39 minutes to convict him of an additional count of rape, child abduction, two counts of sexual assault, and taking an indecent video.
His co-defendant, Mohammad Kabir, an Afghan asylum seeker who arrived in the UK on Christmas Day 2024, was acquitted of all charges, including intentional strangulation and attempted child abduction, and was discharged.
Detective Chief Inspector Collette O’Keefe urged the general public to recollect the true focus of the tragedy. She mentioned: “Regardless of the ethnicity or nationality of the defendant, we should really remember that the victim has been raped… a 12-year-old victim is at the heart of this investigation.”
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