{"id":633052,"date":"2026-06-11T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/633052\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:40:10","slug":"asylum-seeker-who-raped-woman-18-in-nottinghamshire-park-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/633052\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum seeker who raped woman, 18, in Nottinghamshire park jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"

An asylum seeker who raped a “particularly vulnerable” 18-year-old woman in a park in Nottinghamshire has been jailed for 10 years.<\/p>\n

Sheraz Malik attacked his victim in Sutton Lawn park in Sutton-in-Ashfield on 29 June last year, shortly after she was raped by another man Malik was with, who has yet to be identified.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old, previously of Bath Street in Sutton-in-Ashfield, had claimed the sex was consensual, but was found guilty of two counts of rape<\/a> by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court in January.<\/p>\n

On Thursday Malik was given a sentence of 10 years in custody, plus four years on extended licence.<\/p>\n

Warning: This article includes details that some readers may find distressing<\/p>\n

Judge Simon Ash KC, sentencing, said Malik attacked the “particularly vulnerable” woman, despite knowing she was very drunk and had been left alone in a park at night with men she did not know, adding the defendant called her “a slut” repeatedly after the attack.<\/p>\n

“When she tried to resist, you hit her hard to the face and head,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Some of the things you said to her did… amount to additional degradation and humiliation of her.”<\/p>\n

The trial had heard Malik is an asylum seeker, who was born in Pakistan and lived in France, Germany and Italy before coming to the UK.<\/p>\n

A reporting restriction was put in place at Nottingham Crown Court in September last year, preventing any mention of the defendant’s immigration status until the trial had concluded.<\/p>\n

The court heard Malik arrived in the UK less than 12 months before the attack, and the sentencing hearing was told his case has not yet been considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An asylum seeker who raped a “particularly vulnerable” 18-year-old woman in a park in Nottinghamshire has been jailed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-633052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633052","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=633052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}