Why was he here? It’s a question we are forced to ask over and over again in borderless Britain, after another asylum seeker is convicted of another monstrous crime. This time, it is the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton. Twenty-three-year-old Afghan national Ahmad Mulakhil was found guilty on Tuesday of rape, child abduction, sexual assault and taking indecent photos of a child following his ten-day trial at Warwick Crown Court.

The details boil the blood. Mulakhil came across the girl playing in a park

The details boil the blood. Mulakhil came across the girl playing in a park. He took her to a cul-de-sac, where he repeatedly raped her. He filmed it. He was laughing. ‘He was saying he was going to kill my family. I was scared’, said his poor, defenceless victim, in a video statement.

After the attack, he bought two cans of Red Bull from a nearby corner shop using his Home Office-provided debit card, which grants asylum seekers their £49-a-week, taxpayer-provided spending money.

Mulakhil claimed he thought the girl was ‘23 or 24’ – an ‘obvious lie’, as the prosecutor put it. He had said, during their initial encounter, that she was too ‘small’ to be 19 – the age she claimed to be when he asked her. It was a conscious act of unspeakable, cackling depravity.

And it should never have been allowed to........

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