{"id":9901,"date":"2025-07-20T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/9901\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:11:07","slug":"asylum-seeker-raped-girl-12-above-shop-he-was-working-in-illegally-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/9901\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum seeker raped girl, 12, above shop he was working in illegally | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

An asylum seeker raped a 12-year-old girl above a shop that he was illegally working in<\/a>. Mohammed Wahid Mohammed told the victim it was “not safe on the streets” and gave her a vape and crisps at Villa Supermarket in Handsworth before attacking her in a bedroom<\/a>, a court was told.<\/p>\n

The girl was vulnerable having left home and travelled to\u00a0Birmingham\u00a0<\/a>on her own. Wahid Mohammed wept in the dock as he was sentenced to 12 years in prison after admitting two counts of sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 13, and was found guilty of three counts of rape by a jury. He had claimed that girl consented to sex despite being too young to do so.<\/p>\n

Judge Roderick Henderson also imposed an extended five-year licence after ruling he was a ‘dangerous’ offender.<\/p>\n

The court heard how the victim arrived in Birmingham<\/a> at around 8.30pm on the day of the attack.<\/p>\n

Andrew Wallace, prosecuting, said: “She had a couple of pounds on her. A homeless lady approached her.<\/p>\n

“She bought the lady a cup of tea. The homeless lady then walked her down Villa Road to Villa Supermarket.<\/p>\n

“As soon as the defendant saw her he said: ‘You look really young. You look really cold\/ Do you want to come into the shop? It’s warm in there, I’ll get you something to eat and drink’.”<\/p>\n

He continued: “He knew she was far away from home, there was discussion about that.<\/p>\n

“Ironically, he told her it wasn’t safe on the streets. He coaxed her into the shop under the pretence of being concerned. Really he only had sex in mind.”<\/p>\n

The victim had originally pretended to be older but told Wahid Mohammed her real age before he kissed her.<\/p>\n

“He wasn’t lawfully working in the store, he’s an asylum seeker from Syria,” said Mr Wallace, who added: “He led her to a bedroom and leant in to kiss her.<\/p>\n

“She said ‘woah you know I’m only 12’. It’s quite plain at one stage she was pretending to be older.”<\/p>\n

The court heard Wahid Mohammed locked the room and repeatedly raped the girl during an hour-long ordeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The girl was saved by a family in a takeaway later that night who grew suspicious of the relationship between the pair and eventually realised that the girl was the subject of a missing person search.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wahid Mohammed was arrested two days later. He admitted to some of the accusations but attempted to claim that the sex had been consensual – despite the victim’s age.<\/p>\n

Mr Wallace added: “When it became plain a 12-year-old could not consent, we had effectively ‘she was somebody who sexually assaulted him and there was nothing he could do about it’.”<\/p>\n

Wahid Mohammed had not previously committed a crime. Nicholas Devine, defending, confirmed he was seeking asylum from Syria<\/a> and claimed he had had a ‘difficult life’.<\/p>\n

Judge Henderson, passing sentence, told him: “This was a sustained event, albeit on one day.<\/p>\n

“There was some grooming although it was limited in time.<\/p>\n

“But you exploited her because she was plainly young and effectively away from home.”<\/p>\n

He added it would be for the authorities to determine the issue of deportation at a later stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An asylum seeker raped a 12-year-old girl above a shop that he was illegally working in. Mohammed Wahid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[815,6274,2426,924,59,57,58,6279,6275,2795,6278,285,50,6276,6277,1141,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-9901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-asylum","tag-asylum-seeker","tag-birmingham","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-illegal-migrant","tag-illegal-working","tag-immigration","tag-migrant","tag-migrant-crisis","tag-news","tag-rape","tag-sexual-assault","tag-syria","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9901","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=9901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}