Abdul Khan Jailed 9.5 Years for Raping 13-Year-Old After Snapchat Grooming

Q: How did a man posing as a teenage boy on Snapchat groom a 13-year-old before raping her twice in Nottingham?

He groomed her by posing on Snapchat as a boy her own age, building trust with sexual messages, and then arranging a face-to-face meeting that led to the attack. Nottingham Crown Court heard that Abdul Khan, believed to be 28, sent the 13-year-old a friend request on Snapchat using the name “Abs” and told her he was 14. The girl said she was 14, though she was actually 13. Over about a week, he exchanged sexual messages with her, asked if she wanted to have sex, and, according to her evidence, manipulated her into sending nude images. On 14 May last year, while she was at school, Khan messaged asking if she was there. She replied that she would be out later and sent him a location pin. He told her, “I’ll meet you there.” They met at the Summerwood Lane tram stop in Clifton. When she saw him, she realised he was much older than the person in the photos. He tried to keep up the deception by saying he was 16. The court heard he then went with her toward a friend’s house, tried to kiss her on the way, stayed only briefly, and then took her to Scout Wood Nature Reserve near Farnborough Road. There, prosecutors said, he unbuttoned her trousers, told her to get on the ground, and raped her twice. Evidence included messages recovered from his phone and DNA found on the girl’s school trousers. A jury convicted him of two counts of rape and related child sexual offences.

3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 10

Nottingham Crown Court jailed Abdul Khan for nine and a half years after convicting him of two rapes and four related child-sex and justice offences.
Prosecutors said Khan, believed to be 28, posed on Snapchat as a 14-year-old boy, lured the 13-year-old to woodland in Clifton on 14 May last year, then raped her twice.
Judge Mark Watson said Khan deliberately hid his identity and kept lying through the case; the girl reported the attack to her father, who contacted police.
Khan arrived in Britain in the back of a lorry in 2015 and faces automatic deportation to Afghanistan after serving two-thirds of his sentence.