Afghan teen’s chilling act after girl, 15, raped in park
One of the Afghan asylum seeking teens jailed over the rape of a young girl posted a disturbing video after the attack.
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Teen Afghan asylum seeker Jan Jahanzeb was swaggering around the same park where he brutally raped a 15-year-old girl just hours after the attack, footage suggests.
Jahanzeb, 17, was jailed on Monday alongside Israr Niazal, 17, also from Afghanistan, for the disturbing attack in May this year.
The victim recorded the attack, but the footage is so harrowing it would trigger a riot if published, one of the defence lawyers said.
Now, sickening footage from Jahanzeb’s TikTok account has surfaced showing him peacocking around the park in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, where he raped the girl mere hours earlier.
The clip, posted the following day and hours before the youths were arrested, shows Jahanzeb posing in a white T-shirt with a Louis Vuitton logo and jeans, The Sun reported.
He struts around over the sound of a popular Pashto song called Yari Tawan Lari.
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Other videos on the account appear to show him and Niazal haunting the same park in the days leading up to the attack, reports the Mail.
And there is also content from his time in Belgium and France, before he arrived in Britain, which portrays his life as carefree.
Separate footage captured by a CCTV camera in the park shows the pair of young thugs frogmarching the girl in the moments before the attack.
One propels the terrified teen along with his hands around her, “in the face of her repeated and loud protests”.
The Afghan asylum seekers then forced the girl to perform a sex act on them despite her “screaming for help”.
Phone footage filmed by the victim was so appalling that one of the boy’s own barristers said it would lead to “disorder if the general public were exposed” to it.
Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both aged 17, were sentenced to youth detention terms of 10 years and eight months and nine years and 10 months respectively.
They arrived in the UK as unaccompanied minors by crossing over the Channel.
The 17-year-olds were living in taxpayer-funded supported accommodation in the Warwickshire town at the time of the horror.
Their victim managed to record the start and aftermath of the “genuinely horrific” attack on her mobile phone after she was separated from her friends.
Her attackers both admitted a single charge of rape of a child under 16 when they appeared before magistrates in Coventry in October.
Judge Sylvia de Bertodano lifted reporting restrictions banning the media from naming the pair at Warwick Crown Court on Monday.
Barristers for Jahanzeb and Niazal had unsuccessfully tried to stop their names being made public, saying it could lead to “widespread public disorder”.
The teen victim bravely filmed a number of clips showing the lead up to and the moments after the attack.
Videos showed the girl weeping, screaming for help and pleading not to be taken into the park.
After she escaped the teen proceeded to film more distressing clips in which she described the horrifying ordeal she had suffered.
Robert Holt, representing Jahanzeb, even asked the judge to ban the media from saying the pair were Afghan asylum seekers.
Jahanzeb turns 18 in less than a month and will be automatically deported after serving his sentence.
The court heard his date of birth is unknown, so an “age assessment” was carried out by specialists.
He made three failed attempts to cross the Channel – including two when his boat was cut up by French police – before succeeding on the fourth try in January.
Niazal pleaded guilty to the rape a day before he turned 17 – meaning he cannot be automatically deported. He is still awaiting the outcome of his asylum claim, having arrived in the UK in November last year.
His barrister, Joshua Radcliffe, suggested he may still be able to “make a life for himself in this country” when he is released.
This story first appeared in The Sun and was republished with permission.
Originally published as Afghan teen’s chilling act after girl, 15, raped in park
