Asylum seeker who groomed and raped girl, 13, jailed
Abdul Khan attacked the girl at a nature reserve after pretending to be 14 on Snapchat.
An asylum seeker, Abdul Khan, who allegedly groomed and raped a 13-year-old girl after pretending to be a teenage boy on Snapchat, has been sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. Khan arrived in the UK in 2015 and faces deportation to Afghanistan after serving two-thirds of his sentence. The court heard that Khan arranged to meet the victim in a woodland nature reserve after initially telling her he was 14, later admitting he was 16.
After engaging in consensual sexual activity, Khan allegedly raped the girl twice more. Despite DNA evidence linking him to the attacks, Khan denied meeting the victim. Judge Mark Watson described Khan's actions as "deliberately concealing his true identity" and ordered him to register as a sex offender indefinitely.
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