Leamington Rape Case: Sentences and Debate on Asylum Policy

I want to talk to you about the details of this horrific

rape in Leamington, because some of the details here

are absolutely

appalling, and I'm sharing them with you, um, for full transparency

about what happened in that case. But I also give a warning before I do

about some

of them. Two Afghan asylum seekers dragged a

fifteen-year-old girl into a

secluded area of woodland and raped her. The girl cried out for help.

Indeed, she managed to record her begging of a

passing woman.

At one point, a woman is heard asking the fifteen-year-old,

"Are you all right?"

The girl replies, "No. Help me. Please help

me. So many people have walked past me.

I want to go home. Please, please, help me, help me.

They are going to rape me."

The girl who can't be named,

um, because she is entitled to anonymity,

uh, the court was told, eventually managed to get away

and recorded

several selfie-type videos demonstrating what they say was

extreme distress, crying and hyperventilating.

In a video after the ordeal, she could be heard sobbing, "Oh my God,

I've just got effing kidnapped. I thought I was going to be dead.

Every single one of these people are driving past me. Help me, someone.

Please, please help me. Why is no one helping me?

Please, someone."

Her mother said in a victim impact statement, "We

have watched our vibrant,

happy and confident daughter shrink down and suffer from anxiety so bad

that she's often physically sick.

This has affected every aspect of her life.

Something broke in all of us that day."

The two Afghans who were living in a hotel,

having just arrived by boat, have been

sentenced to ten and nine years in prison.

The Telegraph reports that Jan Jadzeb

turns eighteen in less than a month and will be automatically deported

after serving his sentence. But the court heard

that his date of birth was

unknown, so an age assessment has been carried out

by specialists. So

I, I wonder then how we know that he turns eighteen in a month if we

don't actually know this, this individual's date of birth.

And therein lies a very, very big part of a very, very big

problem. We have no idea who these people

are. We, we barely know where they come from.

And, and the rage that I feel about this story and the rage

that you feel about this story, this, this kind of...

actually I find genuinely barely containable rage,

um, leads to perhaps a, a desire to

bring in a few of the more kind of Trumpian ends of the ideas about

what should happen next. And I would...

quite candid with you, quite a few of those ideas have flickered

through my mind in

the last twenty-four hours. But I, I am trying extremely hard not

to let the jerk in knee-jerk win.

However,

as the people of Crowborough, where six

hundred men are about to be deposited at an old army

camp, as they set up

a patrol group of local

residents around the old barracks there,

uh, surely

that has to be an absolute minimum now for any

place housing large numbers of asylum-seeking

men. We, we cannot have groups of

random, bored, culturally incompatible men

wandering around towns and villages of places unfortunate enough

to be burdened

with this. At a minimum, the rule has to be you cannot

leave the facility you're being fed and watered in until we know who you

are or until your claim has been processed.

Otherwise, the status quo carries on, and, and I just don't see how

anyone can conclude that that is the best way forward,

that we just let the same

things we've always done keep happening with results being like this.

So

what is the response?

I'll give you one.

This is the former Prime Minister, Liz Truss.

Now, you say what you like about Liz Truss,

but she was Prime Minister for a bit.

She's just said these horrific crimes are happening daily in Britain.

The whole system, including the mainstream media,

is suppressing the truth.

She says the Human Rights Act needs to be repealed.

All migration from Afghanistan should be stopped.

Is that... That's too knee-jerk. Is that too knee-jerk?

You can't and shouldn't judge the whole by the part.

So we can't judge every person

from Afghanistan on the basis of actions of,

in this case, two people.

So that, that, that's too far for me. But I, I'm...

Again, candidly,

that thought's crossed my mind too,

and I, and I can't...

I, I think the reason why I say I'm not sure

that's going to

work is it does

judge the, the, the whole by the part, and that, that sort of isn't fair.

But at a bare minimum,

the idea that you would have, um, hundreds of people, a-and

even in the cases where we sort of

have a better idea about who they are 'cause

they've been through the criminal system,

still don't know how old this bloke is,

still don't really know how old he is.

The idea that you would allow then hundreds and hundreds of people to be

housed in

areas and they're allowed to wander around and we now have no idea who they are,

no, cannot happen, cannot be allowed to happen anymore.

If, if this case provokes one response, it has to be that

somebody, ideally the police or I, I, I don't know,

s-but somebody has to say, "I'm, I'm afraid, sir, you

cannot leave the hotel that you're being housed in until your

claim has been

processed 'cause we don't know who you are."