Footage so horrifying it would cause a riot
Caution: Graphic sexual details follow:
This (see below) is the moment two teenage Afghan asylum seekers dragged a screaming schoolgirl towards a dark park where they would rape her.
Small boat migrants Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, were on Monday jailed for sexually assaulting the 15-year-old in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, on May 10.
They were both named following a legal victory by the Daily Mail.
Chilling CCTV released in the wake of their sentencing showed the boys leading their victim across a bridge to a park where they forced her to perform oral sex on them.
In the 20-second clip, the asylum seekers are seen standing menacingly on either side of the girl at around 9.21pm, after luring her away from her friends.
Separate footage captured by the victim on her phone was so appalling that one of the boy's own barristers warned it would lead to rioting if the public were to see it.
The harrowing three-minute clip showed the girl saying 'you're going to rape me', as she was forced away from the area where she had been happily socialising.
The phone clip, which was played at Warwick Crown Court today, also caught the girl weeping, repeatedly crying 'help' and begging not to be taken into the park.
Chilling CCTV released by police showed two boys leading their victim across a bridge to a park where they forced her to perform oral sex on them
Jan Jahanzeb, 17, led the girl away from her friends and was caught on video covering her mouth as she tried to scream
Israr Niazal, also 17, pleaded guilty to raping the teenage victim, having arrived in the UK in November 2024
The terrified girl was forced to perform oral sex on the boys in a secluded area next to Newbold Comyn in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
At one point the victim screamed for help, but Jahanzeb placed his hand over her mouth.
She was forced to perform oral sex on the boys in a secluded area next to Newbold Comyn, before she escaped and filmed several further videos describing her ordeal.
The girl was eventually found by a quick-thinking passerby who took her to a nearby police station with him, where officers were able to obtain vital forensic evidence.
Ahead of sentencing the boys today, Judge Sylvia de Bertodano accepted a legal challenge mounted by the Daily Mail and agreed to lift a ban on naming them, which had been imposed due to their age.
Jahanzeb was jailed for 10 years and eight months, while Niazal was jailed for nine years and 10 months, with a deduction to reflect he was younger at the time of the offence.
The young victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, bravely attended court with her mother to watch her tormentors be imprisoned.
Passing sentence, the judge said: 'No child should have to suffer the ordeal (the victim) has suffered. The fact is, you two have robbed her of her childhood and nothing that the sentence of this court and nothing I can do today can restore that.
'I accept that you come from a place which has significant cultural differences from the UK, however I don’t accept that either of you does not understand the concept of consent.
'This is a case where it was absolutely clear to both of you that you were talking a child away from her friends in the face of her vigorous protests to somewhere you couldn’t be observed, in order to commit this offence.
'I’m satisfied you both knew perfectly well that what you were doing was criminal and wrong.
'You have betrayed the interests of those, like you, who come here fleeing harm and seeking safety and for that you should feel a deep and lasting sense of shame.'
The asylum seekers were living in taxpayer-funded houses at the time of the attack, having arrived in the UK by small boats as unaccompanied children.
It is understood Jahanzeb only succeeded in making the crossing in January, after three previous failed attempts which saw French police repeatedly cutting up his dinghy.
The boys, who appeared in the dock today wearing matching grey jackets with sky-blue sleeves, pleaded guilty to the dusk attack at an earlier hearing in October.
Jahanzeb now faces being deported, but Niazal has not been served with papers ordering him to leave the UK because he pleaded guilty one day before turning 17 - making him just a day too young to qualify.
His barrister made the extraordinary suggestion this would allow the younger of the two rapists to 'make a life for himself in this country' when he is eventually released.
The judge later confirmed during her sentencing that she would recommend that the Home Secretary considers deporting both Jahanzeb and Niazal.
Outlining the case against the defendants, Shawn Williams, prosecuting, said the girl had been drinking vodka with her friends in a park in Leamington, saying: 'It was a Saturday afternoon, it was a nice day.'
The victim had found herself quite drunk from the spirits, later telling officers her level of inebriation was an 'eight out of 10'.
The two defendants began talking to the group of girls and posed for pictures, with one of the boys grabbing the victim's friend 'very tightly'.
'After some time, (the victim) became separated from her friends and she walked away with Jahanzeb,' the prosecutor said.
As she was being led away by Jahanzeb, the girl was able to record a three-minute video on her phone - which captured both her alarm and the defendant summoning his friend to join him.
'The video footage is of a very distressing nature,' the prosecutor said.
'(The victim) is heard screaming for help - she wants her friends, she wants to go home, she can be heard explicitly stating "you're going to rape me", repeatedly shouting let me go and she's pleading for help from passers-by.'
Tragically, a woman can be heard stopping and repeatedly asking the girl if she is alright, but, despite the girl saying she was not and crying out for help, the witness did not intervene further.
A translation of Jahanzeb's words in the clip revealed he was urging his friend to join him quickly, before adding: 'Oh my god, I'm a Muslim in one minute.'
CCTV footage captured from a nearby bridge showed the boys marching down the road with the victim between them.
She was taken to a 'bushy den type of area, a really secluded location' where she was pushed down to her knees, which ripped her jeans and grazed one knee.
After being forced to perform oral sex on both boys, she was able to escape and filmed a series of videos of herself crying as she walked down the road.
She could be heard saying: 'Oh my god, I just got f****** kidnapped by these guys…I was screaming for help and no one was listening to me.'
A man who saw her distress stopped to help her and encouraged her to report the matter immediately to the police.
The prosecutor said: 'The evidence of lack of consent is overwhelming. The facts reveal a deeply distressing and predatory sexual offence on a vulnerable and highly intoxicated 15-year-old.'
In a victim impact statement, the girl said: 'The day I was raped changed me as a person. I'm no longer a happy, care-free teenager. This was my first sexual experience.
'When I go out, I no longer feel safe, so much so that I have started to avoid it all together. This has also impacted my education and school life at the worst possible time as I'm taking my GCSEs.
'I hate that I'm now looked at as a victim, even though that is exactly what I am.'
Joshua Radcliffe, defending Niazal, had earlier sought to oppose the press's application to lift restrictions on naming the boys by arguing the crime was so appalling it could lead to rioting.
'It is horrific footage, genuinely horrific footage,' he said. 'I have no doubt that if the general public were exposed to that, we would have disorder on our hands.'
Robert Holt, defending Jahanzeb, went further by asking the judge to stop the press from even being able to say the boys were Afghan asylum seekers.
But Sam Rowe, representing the Daily Mail, told the court it was in the public interest for the boys to be named due to national concern about sex crimes being committed by asylum seekers.
He said: 'These defendants plainly pose a grave risk to children, having now been found by the court to have raped a child - irrespective of the time the defendants may spend in prison.'
The judge ultimately accepted the arguments of the Daily Mail, telling the court: 'The balance clearly falls in favour of the public interest and the identities of these two young men can be reported.'
