Three men jailed for raping girl after Snapchat grooming – Graphic Online

Three Afghan nationals who raped a teenager, before being stopped by French police as they fled the UK in the back of a lorry, have been jailed. Mehrab Safi, 21, Awal Ahmadzai and Salman Habibkheil, both 19, were found guilty on 26 June of multiple offences against the girl at a house in St Werburghs, Bristol, last year. Safi first met the 17-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, while she was Christmas shopping, and groomed her over Snapchat before paying for a taxi to bring her to Bristol. Safi was jailed for 15 years at Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday, while Habibkheil and Ahmadzai were both sentenced to nine years in a youth detention centre. Sentencing the three men, Judge Michael Cullum said being trafficked and raped by the men will have caused “unimaginable” trauma to the teenager. A 17-year-old boy – who is an Afghan national but cannot be named for legal reasons – was also convicted of rape, but he did not try to escape the UK. He was sentenced to two years and seven months in a youth detention centre.  In a victim impact statement read out to the court, the girl said the
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