10 years. Four more on extended licence. Sheraz Malik, a Pakistani asylum seeker, found guilty of raping an 18-year-old woman in Sutton in Ashfield last June. Nottinghamshire.
Malik didn't arrive here fleeing persecution and seeking sanctuary. Before claiming asylum in the UK, he lived in Italy. Then Germany. Then France. That's three safe European countries, three chances to settle, claim asylum, and get on with life. Instead he kept moving. Ended up here. And raped a teenager.
The safe country principle isn't just legal technicality, it exposes intent. Italy, Germany, France, all safe. All functioning democracies. All with asylum systems. But Malik wasn't interested in safety. He was interested in Britain. Specifically, an 18 year old girl in Sutton-in-Ashfield.
The sentence is crap, 10 years plus four on extended licence means the Parole Board keeps eyes on him. But the real question is why he was ever here to commit the crime in the first place. Three European countries. Any one of them should have been the end of his journey. Instead Britain became the destination, and a teenage girl became the victim.
Not that anyone in Westminster will ask that question.
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