Pakistani asylum seeker jailed for 10 years for raping ‘significantly susceptible’ girl in UK

A Pakistani asylum seeker who raped a “significantly susceptible” 18-year-old girl in a Nottinghamshire park, UK, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, studies BBC. 28-year-old Sheraz Malik attacked {the teenager} in Sutton Garden park, positioned in Sutton-in-Ashfield, on June 29 final 12 months. Malik assaulted the lady after she had already been raped by an unidentified man he was with.Malik claimed the encounter was consensual, however a jury convicted him of two counts of rape in January. He was then handed a 10-year custodial sentence plus an extra 4 years on prolonged licence.Decide Simon Ash KC said that Malik attacked the sufferer regardless of figuring out she was extremely intoxicated and left alone at night time with unusual males. He mentioned the defendant known as the sufferer “a slut” after the assault.“When she tried to withstand, you hit her laborious to the face and head,” the decide mentioned, including, “A few of the stuff you mentioned to her did… quantity to further degradation and humiliation of her.”The trial revealed that Malik is an asylum seeker born in Pakistan. He lived in France, Germany, and Italy earlier than arriving within the UK lower than a 12 months earlier than the assault. His asylum software has not but been thought-about. A strict reporting restriction had beforehand banned any point out of his immigration standing till the trial concluded.The incident sparked protests and counter-protests in Sutton-in-Ashfield final 12 months after reaching social media.The sufferer had been consuming within the park with a male good friend. When her good friend briefly left to fulfill another person, he requested Malik and his group to “take care of” her.One man from the group took the lady to a secluded space below the pretence of letting her use the bathroom and raped her. Prosecution counsel Nicholas Corsellis KC beforehand defined: “The defendant then determined he wished to have intercourse along with her and took his flip to take her to a secluded spot, the place he bodily struck her whereas raping her.”Malik claimed he was taking part in cricket and smoking hashish within the park, denying any violence.A sufferer affect assertion detailed the continued trauma suffered by the lady. “I discover myself struggling to manage,” she said. “I preserve having nightmares in regards to the incident and the medical examination after it.” She added that anxiousness and stress have made it tough to eat and sleep.Decide Ash deemed Malik a “important threat” to the general public who confirmed no regret. The decide informed Malik: “Fairly than feeling empathy in the direction of [the victim], you seem to really feel solely hostility and anger in the direction of her.”Nottinghamshire Police are nonetheless looking for the primary attacker.