SHOCK – Nation In TEARS After Devastating Child Abuse Verdict💔K1

Co-defendant Mohammad Kabir, also an Afghan national, was acquitted of intentional strangulation, committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence and attempting to abduct a child. Mulakhil was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on a date to be fixed.

Kabir, who is 24 according to court documents but told jurors he is 22, was cleared after maintaining that he never touched the victim and had no sexual intentions towards her.

Jurors at a 10-day trial were told that Mulakhil arrived in the UK four months before the rapes and had made an immigration application linked to “problems” he had experienced in Afghanistan.

Jurors deliberated for more than seven hours over three days before reaching their verdicts. Remanding Mulakhil in custody for sentence on a date to be fixed, Judge Kristina Montgomery KC said of him: “He will plainly receive a substantial custodial sentence which will automatically make him liable for deportation at its conclusion.”

She also thanked the jury for discharging their duties without paying any regard to “noise” surrounding the proceedings.

The trial was not told that Mulakhil arrived in Britain by small boat, or that Kabir had entered the UK by the same method on Christmas Day in 2024.

Mulakhil told police he believed the girl was 19 and that she had initiated what was his first sexual encounter.

During the trial, Prosecutor Daniel Oscroft described Mulakhil’s attempts to blame his victim for what happened as “stomach-churning” and “pretty revolting”.

In his closing speech to the trial jury, Mr Oscroft said of Mulakhil: “There was no hint in the evidence he gave of any pause for reflection or to consider that, in retrospect, he made a mistake.

“He is blaming her. He has tried to argue that he believed she was an adult – that he initially didn’t want anything to do with it – that she drove all of it, and that she consented throughout.”

The victim, who cannot be identified in media reports, told the trial she was approached in a park by both defendants after playing on swings.

During the sex attacks, the girl said, she had told her attacker to stop. Asked by the police what he was saying, the girl responded: “Nothing. He was just laughing. I was saying get off me. He didn’t say anything, he just carried on.”

Kabir was ordered to be discharged from the dock following his acquittal, with the court being told he would be released into the care of the escort service that would take him to where he resides or is being held.