{"id":2345,"date":"2026-10-08T19:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:03:44","slug":"four-afghan-nationals-jailed-in-britain-over-rape-of-17-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"Four Afghan nationals jailed in Britain over rape of 17-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A court in Bristol, UK, has jailed three Afghans over the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl, with three of the defendants also having fled the country for France following the attack.<\/p>\n<p>According to a media report, Bristol Crown Court heard that Mehrab Safi, 21, Salman Habibkheil, 19, Awal Ahmadzai, 19 and a 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons attacked the girl at a house in Bristol in November last year.<\/p>\n<p>The victim had been brought to the house and given alcohol before being sexually assaulted and raped over several hours.<\/p>\n<p>The court found that she had been trafficked for the purpose of committing a sexual offence.<\/p>\n<p>Safi, Ahmadzai and Habibkheil fled the UK in December 2025 by hiding in the back of a lorry.<\/p>\n<p>They filmed themselves \u201ccelebrating\u201d their escape before being arrested by French authorities in Calais and repatriated to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Safi was sentenced to 15 years in prison for two counts of rape and one count of human trafficking. Habibkheil received nine years in detention for rape and human trafficking, while Ahmadzai received nine years for rape and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old defendant was sentenced to three years in detention for rape. Judge Michael Cullum said the victim was \u201cobviously vulnerable\u201d and that the defendants had preyed on her vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>According to an analyst, illegal Afghan refugees in different countries have been repeatedly found involved in a number of crimes, including murders, rapes, sexual assaults, harassment, drug trafficking, robberies, theft, assaults, kidnappings, illegal settlements, extortion and organized criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has fueled deep public anger and widening social resentment,\u201d the analyst said with the people also calling upon their respective European governments to take strict action against such elements and find out a permanent solution to the menace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Bristol, UK, has jailed three Afghans over the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl, with three of the defendants also having fled the country for France following the attack. According to a media report, Bristol Crown Court heard that Mehrab Safi, 21, Salman Habibkheil, 19, Awal Ahmadzai, 19 and a 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons attacked the girl at a house in Bristol in November last year. The victim had been brought to the house and given alcohol before being sexually assaulted and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}