The moment an Afghan national asks a 12yo girl in England how old she is before raping her

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This is the moment an Afghan national asks a 12-year-old girl 'how old are you?' before he allegedly raped her, a court was told.

Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, is accused of laughing as he raped and took indecent images of the 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

He is said to have spotted the schoolgirl in a playground and 'targeted' her with his co-defendant, fellow Afghan Mohammad Kabir, 24, last July.

Kabir is accused of trying to strangle the youngster before she was repeatedly raped by Mulakhil, who took photos of the attack, jurors were told.

CCTV footage played at Warwick Crown Court, shows Mulakhil speaking to the girl in the street asking her: 'How old are you? Twenty? Nineteen? Sixteen?'

When she replies 'nineteen', Mulakhil says: 'Nineteen? Really?'

In another clip, he is seen with the schoolgirl going into the cul-de-sac where she was allegedly raped.

Other footage shows the pair leaving the park less than 30 seconds after the girl and two men walking along a residential street in the town.

A video found on Mulakhil's phone and played in court showed him with his arm around her neck and grinning into the camera.

He was again seen on CCTV with the girl after the alleged attack inside a corner shop buying two cans of Red Bull.

The court heard she was later found 'petrified' in the street by two adults, who cannot be named for legal reasons, who raised the alarm.

One of the witnesses told jurors that the girl was 'very scared'.

They said: 'She had a love-bite on her neck. She said "Something happened to me".

'I asked her if she was hurt. She said "He raped me".

'She said her back was hurting because they "ragged" her around. She was very scared.

She said "he's coming for me" and knew he was still in the park. She was very worried that he was going to come across the road and try and get her.'

The witness added that the girl said that Mulakhil 'wanted her to get in a BMW' and 'take her to Birmingham and London and rape her again'.

'She told me she thought the men were safe because they were adults,' they added.

'She said one of them had strangled her.'

The other witness told jurors: 'She was very frantic, she was looking over her shoulder.

'She said, "Something happened to me". She kept looking over to the park, saying, "Where has he gone?"

'She was petrified, frantic, she was crying. It scared me.'

Prosecutor Daniel Oscroft told jurors yesterday how both men 'targeted' the youngster.

He said Kabir first approached her, put his hands around her neck and attempted to get her to come with him.

In a videotaped statement, the girl said: 'I thought I was going to die because I couldn't breathe.'

The girl said she ran off but later came across Mulakhil on a nearby housing estate.

'I was walking and saw him. He spoke to me, and said come with me, so I went with him,' she said.

'We got behind a shed thing. He was saying that he liked me. I said, "I don't like you. I'm young. I'm a kid".

'He had a translator on his phone. He was acting weird. He put his hands on me and I told him to stop.

'He was trying to strip my clothes off. He said nothing. He was laughing.'

The girl then told how she was sexually assaulted and raped by Mulakhil.

I was saying get off me but he didn't say anything, he just carried on,' she said.

'He was saying he was going to kill my family. I was scared.

'He took photos. It felt weird. Why was he taking pictures of that?'

Mulakhil's DNA was found on the girl's neck and inside her shorts, the court heard.

Mr Oscroft said indecent images were found on his phone and non-indecent videos of him and the girl.

Mulakhil, of no fixed abode, denied abducting her and said the sexual activity that did take place was consensual and 'initiated' by the girl.

Jurors were told he has admitted a charge of oral rape of the 12-year-old.

Mulakhil denies two other counts of rape, abducting a child, two counts of sexual assault and taking indecent photographs of a child.

Kabir, also of no fixed abode, denies attempting to take a child and intentional strangulation.

He also denies committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence.

The court has heard Kabir is alleged to have strangled the girl, who had been playing in a park, at about 6pm.

She was then seen talking to Mulakhil at about 8pm, when she is said to have claimed to be aged 19.

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