A teenage UK girl was groomed and gang raped by four Afghan nationals, including a 16-year-old boy, after she was lured to a home and given vodka.
According to a report by The Sun, the teen girl was Christmas shopping with a friend when they began speaking to a 21-year-old named Mehrab Safir, whom they had not known prior. He asked that the victim add him on Snapchat, then requested nude photographs on November 28.
Days later, Safi allegedly arranged for a taxi to take the victim home from her Somerset home to Bristol. She was dropped off at an area where Safi was waiting with another suspect, before they got into a taxi and took the girl to a house.
The victim was then given cigarettes and vodka before she was allegedly raped by Safi and the three other suspects.
“The prosecution say that they sexually abused a young girl who Mr Safi had met and began grooming only days before the rapes took place,” said prosecutor Ed Hetherington.
“On November 30 last year, Mr Safi and Mr Habibkheil arranged for her to be brought by taxi to meet them in Bristol in the early hours of a Sunday morning,” he said. “Once she arrived, she was taken to a home in St Werburghs and she was very quickly expected to have sex with Mr Safi.”
“She didn’t want to, not yet, but it happened anyway,” he added.
The court found that after she was allegedly raped by Safi, the others “took it in turns to get her alone in a bedroom or in a bed and to have sex with her against her wishes.” She was “plied with alcohol and cigarettes to secure her compliance.”
The alleged attacks reportedly ended when the victim’s mother contacted the police.
The three adult suspects reportedly fled the UK in December just days after the attack, according to the Telegraph. They fled to France, where they were eventually caught.
