21 April 2024
An Afghan asylum seeker who crossed the channel in a small boat has been jailed for carrying a drunken student into an alleyway and trying to sexually assault her.
Merwais Nasiri, 25, was living in a free paid for by the Tax Payer 3 to 4 star hotel after being moved to Exeter by the Home Office which was nice he was also entailed free money, free healthcare for life but that wasn’t enough he went out late at night and ended up prowling the street outside a nightclub.
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Exeter Crown Court heard that the asylum seeker had a tragic background, having been a shepherd in Afghanistan until his father was killed by the Taliban and he and his mother became refugees.
They moved to France where his mother died in 2022, which lead him to move to Britain to seek asylum.
The Afghan Nasiri spotted the 20-year-old woman, who was so drunk that she was sat on a step opposite the club, in a semi-conscious state with her head in her arms, so stayed with her and pretending to be a Good Samaritan for over an hour and a quarter even convincing a street pastor who came over to check on her welfare.
After waiting until he thought the coast was clear he carried her into an alley and moved a large commercial bin to block the entrance.
His victim was only rescued by two bouncers who had been alerted by a worker at a nearby take away who had spotted Nasiri abducting her. Once they moved the bin they found Nasiri on top of the helpless woman. The doorman made a citizen’s arrest before he had a chance to carry out a sexual assault but the kidnap has had a massive effect on the victim, who has struggled to complete her university studies and now feels so insecure that she has moved back home and abandoned her original plans for her career.
CCTV footage showed him with his arm around her, holding her up, and trying to move her twice before he succeeded in manhandling her into the alley combined with earlier footage that showed him prowling the city centre looking for potentially vulnerable women.
Nasiri of Topsham Road, Exeter, denied kidnap and intending to commit a sexual assault but was found guilty by a jury at Exeter Crown Court at a trial in January.
He was jailed for five and a half years with a four year extended licence by Judge Stephen Climie, who put him on the sex offenders’ register for life and classified him as a dangerous offender.
He praised the courage of the victim and told Nasiri: ‘This case is not about you. It is about a young woman of 20 who gave evidence before this court which demonstrated not just intelligence and composure but extraordinary dignity.
She had no memory of what had happened to her but was traumatised when she found out and had to undergo medical checks at a sexual assault clinic which she found ‘absolutely horrible intrusive and unpleasant.’
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