Afghan national found guilty of abducting and raping 12-year-old girl

An Afghan asylum seeker has been found guilty of abducting and raping a 12-year-old girl in Warwickshire.

Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, "targeted" the child after spotting her in a park in Nuneaton last July, prosecutors said.

The attack sparked protests in the town.

Mulakhil was unanimously convicted at Warwick Crown Court of rape and two counts of sexual assault, having admitted a further rape charge before his trial.

Jurors also convicted him of child abduction and taking an indecent video of the girl during her ordeal.

He had told the court he did not force the girl to do anything, and did not threaten her family, but had filmed her, at her insistence, during a brief period of sexual activity.

Mulakhil was cleared of a second count of rape.

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Co-defendant Mohammad Kabir, also an Afghan national, was acquitted of intentional strangulation, attempted child abduction and committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence.

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

Mulakhil was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on a date to be fixed.

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