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 happen. It would never have happened, if we had something resembling a border – if the British state hadn’t become quite so relaxed about letting tens of thousands of young men enter the country illegally, provided they can afford to pay a people smuggler and survive the waves.
Mulakhil came to Britain on a dinghy, just four months before he happened upon that 12-year-old on the swings. He is yet to be sentenced, but he is almost certain to receive a spell in prison long enough to qualify him for automatic deportation upon his release.
We can only hope, by then, it is no longer possible for him to block his return – in his case, to Taliban-run Afghanistan – on dodgy ‘human rights’ grounds, as an alarming number of scumbags have managed of late. Perhaps, by then, we will have even rid ourselves of an ‘asylum’ system that is so dysfunctional, so gripped by institutional naivety, that it is putting women and children at intolerable risk, all in the name of compassion.
Before Ahmad Mulakhil in Nuneaton there was Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, the 17-year-old Afghans convicted in December of the rape of a 15-year-old girl in nearby Leamington Spa. Before them, there was Sadeq Nikzad, 29, also from Afghanistan, who tried to downplay his culpability for the rape of a Falkirk teen by citing ‘cultural differences and a language barrier’.
Afghan nationals hardly hold the monopoly on sexual assault in Britain. But the disproportion – as it is with the Pakistani rape gangs – is now impossible to ignore. Afghans – along with Eritreans – are more than 20 times more likely to be convicted of a sexual offence than Brits, according to official data, farmed from Freedom of Information requests by the Centre for Migration Control.
When confronted with these figures last year, Home Office sources put this down to migrants in Britain being younger on average, and so much more likely to commit sex crimes. They also said claims about any disproportion were shaky, given they were based on out-of-date population figures, with the real number of Afghans bound to be far higher since the 2021 census.
Without realising it, these mandarins were telling on themselves. These tepid deflections only confirmed just how out-of-control migration has become, and how our asylum system now essentially selects for unaccompanied young men. Rather than, say, the women and children hoping to flee terror, war and rampant male violence.
Why was he here? It’s a question we are forced to ask over and over again in borderless Britain
The asylum question provokes a remarkable level of doublethink among the great and good. A decade or so ago, the talking point du jour was that Britain was stricken with a ‘rape culture’, because of lads’ mags and the cheeky-chappy gags of one Dapper Laughs. And yet the very same people seem to think you can fling open the doors to unvetted men from a war-torn nation, in which rape and honour killings routinely go unpunished, which is ranked dead last by experts on every conceivable metric of women’s wellbeing, and everything will be hunky-dory.
For far too long, asylum policy has been where common sense has gone to die. You need not think all asylum seekers pose a threat to women and children to recognise that a non-negligible proportion of them will. Particularly when they so often arrive paperless, impossible to properly trace and check, from countries with nightmarish levels of violent misogyny. That it is difficult to get rid of them, even after they commit heinous crimes, salts already gaping wounds.
The pieties of our post-borders elites and the diktats of international law have warped the relationship between the state and the citizen. The safety of Brits must be compromised, and their demands for migration control ignored, so as to satisfy arcane treaty obligations and make politicians feel good about themselves.
Now, following another rape, of another girl, by another man who should never have been here, the sheer, maddening treachery of it is plain for all to see.
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