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Afghan asylum seeker who raped schoolgirl in woods after masquerading as 14-year-old boy on Snapchat is jailed for nearly 10 years

An asylum seeker who raped a 13-year-old girl in a wood after grooming her on Snapchat has been jailed for nine-and-a-half years.

Abdul Khan, who told police he arrived in the UK in the back of a lorry from Afghanistan in 2015, attacked the teenager a decade later.

A trial last week heard how Khan used the messaging platform Snapchat to groom the teenager by telling her he was a 14-year-old boy – when he was actually 27.

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