AFGHAN MIGRANTS WHO RAPED TEENAGE GIRL SENT TO CUSHY PRISON

Daily Mail

 

Afghan migrants who raped teenage girl sent to cushy prison that lets them play Xbox games, enjoy ensuite showers and gives them £20 a week for treats

By RORY TINGLE, HOME AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT and JACK HARDY, NEWS REPORTER

Published: 06:18 EST, 11 December 2025 | Updated: 06:19 EST, 11 December 2025

 

Two Afghan small boat migrants who raped a 15-year-old girl have been sent to a 'cushy' prison that lets inmates play Xbox games and enjoy ensuite showers.

 

Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, abducted the child from a park in Leamington Spa before brutally raping her as she cried and screamed for help.

 

After their jailing on Monday, they are being held at Werrington Young Offender Institution in Staffordshire.

 

Conditions at the youth jail are far more comfortable than in adult prisons, with inmates allowed regular visits and phone calls as well as hours of communal time to play computer games and table tennis.

 

They are kept in single cells with showers and a phone alongside a desk, laptop, TV and DVD player.

 

They can also use the gym at least five times a week and get £20 of taxpayers' cash to spend in the prison shop.

 

In an attempt to rehabilitate them, inmates can also access 30 hours of education each week alongside practical courses, including barista training and painting and decorating. 

 

One source claimed the prison's relaxed regime means Jahanzeb and Niazal and 'basically being mollycoddled'.

 

'It is shocking how cushy their life is there - they have nice cells, which are basically bedrooms, and allowed loads of time out,' the source told The Sun.

 

'They are allowed time in the gym and access to workshops plus a 'spends' account of £20 per week.

 

'That is taxpayers' money that they can spend on treats like cans of Coke, Maltesers and Pringles.'

 

Jahanzeb and Niazal had arrived only months earlier in small boats before assaulting the 15-year-old in a park on May 10.

 

Phone footage captured by the victim was so appalling that even one of the boy's own barristers warned it would lead to 'disorder' if 'the general public were exposed' to it.

 

In the distressing three-minute clip, the girl could be heard crying 'you're going to rape me' as she was dragged away from where she had been drinking with friends in Leamington Spa.

 

The footage, played at Warwick Crown Court, also showed her weeping, screaming 'help' and begging not to be taken to the park.

 

She was forced to perform a sex act on the boys in a secluded area, before she escaped and filmed more clips describing her ordeal.

 

The girl was eventually found by a passer-by who took her to a nearby police station, where officers were able to obtain vital forensic evidence.

 

In an impact statement, the girl said: 'The day I was raped changed me as a person. I'm no longer a happy, carefree teenager. This was my first sexual experience.'

 

Jailing Jahanzeb for ten years and eight months, and Niazal for nine years and ten months, Judge Sylvia de Bertodano also accepted a legal challenge mounted by the Daily Mail which means they can be named for the first time.

 

She said they had 'betrayed the interests' of genuine refugees and 'should feel a deep and lasting sense of shame'.

 

The judge added: 'No child should have to suffer the ordeal [the victim] has suffered. The fact is, you two have robbed her of her childhood.'

 

Even Niazal's own lawyer Joshua Radcliffe called the phone footage 'genuinely horrific,' adding: 'I have no doubt that if the general public were exposed to that, we would have disorder on our hands.'

 

The asylum seekers were living in taxpayer-funded houses at the time of the attack The boys admitted the attack in October.

 

Jahanze faces deportation, but Niazal does not, as he pleaded guilty a day before turning 17 – too young to qualify.

 

It comes as Keir Starmer saw his plan to modernise human rights laws to aid deportations all but doomed by Berlin and Paris yesterday.

 

Britain yesterday led more than half of members of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in a call for reforms to prevent it from being used to block deportations, as the Tories found to their cost.

 

After nine nations backed a similar move in the spring, some 27 of 46 members yesterday issued a joint statement calling for amendments to the ECHR to make it easier to deport illegal migrants and establish Rwanda-style deportation schemes.

 

But, notably, heavyweights France and Germany did not sign up, with the Prime Minister warned that getting all 46 members on board is a 'million miles away'.

 

Changes could be agreed with a majority, but to get European judges to comply a consensus is preferred.

 

'Attempts to reform the ECHR are as doomed as David Cameron's attempt to reform the EU,' shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick told the Mail last night.

 

'Even minor changes to the ECHR are a million miles away given France and Germany aren't on board.'