Pakistani asylum seeker jailed for 10 years for raping ‘particularly vulnerable’ woman in Britain

Pakistani asylum seeker jailed for 10 years for raping ‘particularly vulnerable’ woman in Britain

A Pakistani asylum seeker who raped a “particularly vulnerable” 18-year-old woman in a Nottinghamshire park in Britain has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the BBC reports. Sheraz Malik, 28, attacked the teen at Sutton Lawn Park, in Sutton-in-Ashfield, on June 29 last year. Malik attacked the woman after she was already raped by an unknown person.Malik claimed the encounter was consensual, but a jury convicted him of two counts of rape in January. He was then given a custodial sentence of 10 years and an additional four years on extended licence.Judge Simon Ash Casey said Malik attacked the victim despite knowing she was highly intoxicated and left alone at night with strangers. She said that after the attack the defendant called the victim a “slut”.“When he tried to resist, you hit him hard on the face and head,” the judge said. He added, “The things you said to her amounted to insults and humiliation.”The trial revealed that Malik was an asylum seeker born in Pakistan. He lived in France, Germany and Italy before arriving in Britain less than a year before the attacks. His asylum application has not yet been considered. A strict reporting embargo had previously banned any mention of his immigration status until the trial ended.The incident sparked protests and counter-protests in Sutton-in-Ashfield last year after it reached social media.The victim was drinking alcohol in the park with a male friend. When her friend temporarily left to meet someone else, she asked Malik and his group to “take care” of her.One of the men in the group took the woman to an isolated area on the pretext of going to the toilet and raped her. Prosecuting barrister Nicholas Corsellis Casey previously told: “The defendant then decided he wanted to have sex with her and took her to a secluded location, where he physically assaulted her while raping her.”Malik denied any violence, claiming that he was playing cricket and smoking ganja in the park.A victim impact statement detailed the trauma the woman has suffered. “I find myself struggling to deal with it,” she said. “I continue to have nightmares about the incident and the subsequent medical examination.” He said that eating and sleeping has become difficult due to anxiety and stress.Judge Ash deemed Malik a “significant risk” to the public who had shown no remorse. The judge told Malik: “Instead of feeling sympathy (towards the victim), you feel only hostility and anger towards her.”Nottinghamshire Police are still searching for the first attacker.

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