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Afghani asylum seeker jailed for raping teenager in Elgin park

An Afghani asylum seeker who raped a teenage girl in a park has been jailed for nine years.

Rapualla Ahmadze attacked the 17-year-old in Cooper Park in Elgin, Moray, in August last year.

Ahmadze had denied rape, claiming that sex was consensual, but was previously found guilty.

At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Thomas Welsh KC said it was a “shocking and violent” attack.

Ahmadze had carried out the assault after approaching the girl and making “intimidating” remarks.

On Tuesday, the court was told there was a dispute about his age but it was stated he would have been about 20 at the time of the attack.

He was convicted of rape and a separate charge of threatening or abusive behaviour.

The judge told him: “You were convicted by the jury on the basis that you acted in a predatory manner and took advantage of a vulnerable teenager who was unknown to you, and you raped her in shocking and violent rape on rough ground in Cooper Park.

“What happened to her that night must have been a horrific ordeal.”

He imposed a total sentence of nine years, backdated to August last year.

Ahmadze has been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.


BBC News

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