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Evening Standard
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Matthew Cooper

Afghan man accused of rape had arrived in UK four months earlier, court told

Ahmad Mulakhil and Mohammad Kabir were seen on CCTV in a supermarket a day after the alleged rape in Nuneaton (Warwickshire Police/PA) - (PA Media)

An Afghan national accused of subjecting a 12-year-old girl to a string of sex attacks has told a jury he believed her claim to be aged 19.

In evidence from the witness box at Warwick Crown Court, Ahmad Mulakhil said he did not force the girl to do anything, had not threatened her family, and filmed part of what happened because she had insisted.

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