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This is the chilling moment two teenage migrants “forcefully” walk the 15-year-old girl they rape through a dark park.

This is the chilling moment two teenage migrants in the UK “forcefully” walk the 15-year-old girl they rape through a dark park.

In the horrific footage, the two attackers are walking either side the girl with one propelling her along with his hands around her, “in the face of her repeated and loud protests”.

The Afghan asylum seekers then forced the girl to perform a sex act on them despite her “screaming for help”.

Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both aged 17, were sentenced to youth detention terms of 10 years and eight months and nine years and 10 months respectively for the rape of a teenage girl.

The pair who both crossed the Channel as unaccompanied minors, attacked the youngster in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in central England’s West Midlands.

The 17-year-olds were living in taxpayer-funded supported accommodation in the Warwickshire town at the time of the horror.

Their victim managed to record the start and aftermath of the “genuinely horrific” attack on her mobile phone after being separated from her friends.

Her attackers both admitted a single charge of rape of a child under 16 when they appeared before magistrates in Coventry in October.

Judge Sylvia de Bertodano lifted reporting restrictions banning the media from naming the pair at Warwick Crown Court today. Barristers for Jahanzeb and Niazal had unsuccessfully tried to stop their names being made public, saying it could lead to “widespread public disorder”.

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Robert Holt, representing Jahanzeb, even asked the judge to ban the media from saying the pair were Afghan asylum seekers.

But Judge de Bertodano said it was in the public interest for them to be named.

Jahanzeb turns 18 in less than a month and will be automatically deported after serving his sentence. The court heard his date of birth is unknown, so an “age assessment” was carried out by specialists.

He made three failed attempts to cross the Channel — including two when his boat was cut up by French police — before succeeding on the fourth try in January.

Niazal pleaded guilty to the rape a day before he turned 17 — meaning he cannot be automatically deported. He is still awaiting the outcome of his asylum claim, having arrived in the UK in November last year.

His barrister, Joshua Radcliffe, suggested he may still be able to “make a life for himself in this country” when he is released.

The teens appeared in court in the glass-fronted dock wearing matching grey and sky blue raincoats, accompanied by two interpreters. Two social services support workers sat in front of them in the well of the court.

CCTV showed the teens dragging the victim. Picture: Warwickshire Police

CCTV showed the teens dragging the victim. Picture: Warwickshire Police

Opening the case, prosecutor Shawn Williams said the girl was attacked in Newbold Comyn, a park popular with families and dog walkers.

He said she had been drinking vodka with friends and was “abducted” by Jahanzeb before being taken into a secluded area. The Afghan teen then rang his friend Niazal, telling him to “come quick” before the pair forced their victim to perform a sex act on them.

During the attack she begged a female passer-by for help but the woman did not come to her aid. She eventually escaped and was helped by a Good Samaritan who rang 999.

Mr Williams said the distressed girl recorded the moment she was “abducted” by Jahanzeb and again after the attack.

“The video footage is of a highly distressing nature,” said Mr Williams. “She is heard screaming for help, she wants her friends, she wants to go home.

“She is heard explicitly saying, ‘You are going to rape me, let me go.’ She is pleading for help from passers by.

“Tragically that plea for help went unanswered.

“During the video Jahanzeb is heard telling her to shush, he can be seen to put his hand over her mouth, presumably in an effort to silence her.

“She recalls being terrified and wanting the ordeal to be over quickly.”

The court heard the girl was forced to her knees by the pair and was then attacked.

“There was no way either defendant could have believed she was consenting,” added Mr Williams.

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