Pakistani national Sheraz Malik, 28, was found guilty of raping a 'vulnerable' teenage girl whom he and a friend pounced on in a park in the constituency of Reform MP Lee Anderson. Mr Anderson first exposed Malik as an asylum seeker last year after he was arrested for targeting the 18-year-old woman when she was alone in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
But a judge stopped the public from being told about the rapist's asylum status by gagging the Press from reporting it until the end of his trial, it can now be revealed.
A jury on Monday convicted Malik of two counts of rape after just a few hours of deliberation at Birmingham Crown Court.
Who imposed the order? One of those 'diverse' judges we were told we desperately needed to 'improve' our justice system, of course:
At a hearing at Nottingham Crown Court in September, Judge Nirmal Shant imposed a reporting restriction postponing publication of Malik's immigration status until the end of the trial, to avoid a 'substantial risk of prejudice to the administration of justice'.
But don’t focus all your opprobium on her, Reader, the old white male judges are really no better:
In court Malik was asked why he took advantage of the victim, and replied: 'What else was I supposed to do?' Asked how he arrived in Europe, Malik protested that the question was not relevant – prompting Judge Simon Ash to intervene and side with the defendant.
Malik will be sentenced at a later date.
The entire edifice needs sweeping out like the Augean Stables. For the same reason.
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