Afghan asylum seeker raped schoolgirl, 15, after spotting her alone in town centre
A vile Afghan “asylum seeker” has been found guilty of raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl after spotting her alone in a town centre.
Sadeq Nikzad approached the girl in Falkirk, Stirlingshire in October 2023 – when he asked for her phone number and whether she had a boyfriend, the High Court in Edinburgh heard.
Nikzad, 29, made “sexual remarks” towards the teenager, before leading her behind a nearby pub where he attacked and raped her.
Nikzad denied raping the girl – but was yesterday found guilty by a jury following a trial.
The Afghan national is now set to be deported from Britain when his sentence, which has not yet been set, comes to an end.
His victim had been walking along the town’s High Street after collecting a prescription, when she was approached by the migrant.
She told jurors: “This is a person I have genuinely never seen before.”
The girl said she understood that English was not his first language – and that “it was quite hard at times to decipher what he was trying to say to me”.
During the assault on her, she said she froze and was “quite shocked”.
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“I knew I needed to get help as soon as possible, but I didn’t really have anything in me to just push him off. If he were to look, he would see I was very unhappy and scared.”
A woman who was walking to her car came across Nikzad’s victim after the attack.
The passer-by said: “As I crossed the road, that’s when I saw the girl and the man coming out of the lane – and the girl came straight over to me. She was in a daze. She looked stunned.
“I knew something had gone wrong. She came to me for comfort. She said she kept telling the guy she was only 15.”
The girl’s father told the court that she phoned him after the attack to tell him what had happened – and when he saw her, she was terrified.
“I have never seen her in that state before,” he said.
Judge John Morris KC has deferred Nikzad’s sentencing to prepare a background report on him.
Until his pre-sentencing report has been delivered, the Afghan national, who has been placed on the sex offenders register, will be kept in custody.