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An asylum seeker named Sheraz Malik has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of raping an 18-year-old woman in a Nottinghamshire park. The incident occurred at Sutton Lawn park in Sutton-in-Ashfield on June 29 of the previous year. Malik’s attack followed shortly after the same woman was sexually assaulted by another man who was present with Malik but has not yet been identified.
Malik, who is 28 years old and formerly lived on Bath Street in Sutton-in-Ashfield, denied the charges, claiming that the sexual encounter was consensual. However, a jury at Birmingham Crown Court convicted him of two counts of rape in January. On Thursday, the court handed him a custodial sentence of 10 years, along with an additional four years on extended licence.
The details presented to the court revealed that the woman had been drinking alcohol in the park with a male friend and was intoxicated when she encountered Malik and several other men unfamiliar to her. According to court testimony, the male friend asked Malik and his group to “look after” the woman while he met another acquaintance. During this time, one man from the group led the woman to a secluded area in the park under the pretense of using the toilet, where he then raped her.
Prosecutor Nicholas Corsellis KC stated, “The defendant then decided he wished to have sex with her and took his turn to take her to a secluded spot, where he physically struck her while raping her.” Malik, meanwhile, told the court that he had been playing cricket and smoking cannabis with other men in the park before the assault and denied physically striking the woman
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