The defendant, who came to the UK on a small boat four months before the offences, showed no emotion and stared ahead at barristers and the judge during the hearing, appearing to be listening intently to his interpreter.<\/p>\n
Defending Mulakhil, Marcus Harry said he arrived in the UK when he was 22 after fleeing Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
“He was planning on attending university to study economics but for a variety of reasons, he came under the focus of the Taliban, as did his family, and that is the reason he ultimately fled the country,” he said. <\/p>\n
The judge said her sentence reached the threshold for Mulakhil to be deported after it had been served.<\/p>\n
He was also given an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and an indefinite restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim.<\/p>\n
The judge said factors including that Mulakhil had abducted the girl and taken her to a secluded location as well as the harm she had suffered gave a “very significant uplift” to the sentence time. <\/p>\n
But she also took into account his age, that he had no previous convictions and his guilty plea to one offence. <\/p>\n
He was given concurrent sentences for his crimes, including four years for child abduction and two for taking an indecent video. <\/p>\n
Mulakhil faced trial alongside Mohammad Kabir, also an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, who was acquitted of all charges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defendant, who came to the UK on a small boat four months before the offences, showed no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-498443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}