by Georgina Mumford, spiked
Another small-boat migrant has committed an unspeakable crime. When will the insanity end?
In July 2025, four months after entering Britain illegally on a small boat from France, Afghan asylum seeker Ahmad Mulakhil abducted and raped a 12-year old girl. Yesterday, he was convicted following a 10-day trial at Warwickshire Crown Court. Alongside one count of rape, Mulakhil was also found guilty of child abduction, two counts of sexual assault and taking indecent photos of a child. He had already admitted a charge of oral rape.
There is no shortage of horrors in this case, yet the way things played out was grimly familiar. Having initially been housed in Kent, Mulakhil later moved to the quiet market town of Nuneaton, where he lived in an HMO (house of multiple occupation) at the taxpayers’ expense. Six weeks later, Mulakhil approached his 12-year-old victim while she was playing on the swings in the park. The court heard that while attacking the child, Mulakhil was laughing.
When he was arrested last August, along with a co-defendant who has now been acquitted, Warwickshire Police immediately sought to cover up key details of the attack. One anonymous source told the Daily Mail that police had urged local officials not to mention the immigration status of the suspects for fear of ‘inflaming community tensions’. Clearly, they didn’t want another Epping-style protest on their hands, although hundreds turned up outside Nuneaton town hall anyway. Indeed, that very month, an Ethiopian asylum seeker living in Epping’s Bell Hotel sexually assaulted a woman and a teenager, just days after arriving in the UK. Hadush Kebatu’s arrest sparked anti-immigration protests both locally and across the country.