Why were these Afghan rapists even in Britain?

Everything about that rape of a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa is horrifying. First and foremost, the barbaric act itself. It took place on 10 May. Just after 9pm the girl was separated from her friends and abducted by Jan Jahanzeb, a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker. He frogmarched her to a darkened park with the intention of sexually assaulting her.

If officialdom had done what voters have begged it to, and properly policed our borders, these young men might not have made it here

Then there was Jahanzeb’s sickening phone call to his friend, Israr Niazal. ‘Come quick’, he said. Come and help me rape this girl – that’s what he was saying. Niazal rushed to the scene. They forced the girl to perform oral sex on them. They’d been in the UK just a few months. They had bed and board in taxpayer-funded accommodation. And they repaid our charity by savagely assaulting an innocent.

Then there are the details. They are beyond grim. The girl had the wherewithal to record her abduction on her mobile phone. ‘Let me go’, she cries. ‘You are going to rape me’, she says. She screams for help. Jahanzeb cruelly smothered her pleas by putting his hand over her mouth. To........

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