Overview
- Warwick Crown Court sentenced Jan Jahanzeb to 10 years and 8 months and Israr Niazal to 9 years and 10 months in youth detention after guilty pleas.
- Reporting restrictions were lifted at the sentencing hearing after media applications, with the judge warning that secrecy fuels misinformation.
- Mobile phone footage recorded by the victim and corroborating CCTV were central to the investigation and to the defendants’ decisions to plead guilty.
- Both offenders were ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life and given indefinite restraining orders, starting terms in a young offender institution.
- The judge recommended deportation for Jahanzeb and invited consideration for Niazal; prosecutors said both arrived recently in the UK as unaccompanied Afghan asylum seekers.