Pakistan-Born Asylum Seeker Raped Woman In UK, Then Asked: 'Did You Enjoy That?'

Last Updated:June 11, 2026, 20:41 IST

This comes weeks after British MP Rupert Lowe revealed testimonies of several girls who were victims of “grooming gangs of Pakistani heritage".

A Pakistan-born asylum seeker has been sentenced to 10 years of jail for raping a “particularly vulnerable" 18-year-old woman in a park in UK’s Nottinghamshire.

The convict, Sheraz Malik, had attacked the victim in Sutton Lawn park in Sutton-in-Ashfield on June 29 last year. She was also raped by another man Malik was with, though the identity is yet to be known.

The Sun reported that the woman had been drinking with her friend in the park when Malik and a group of other men came over and joined them.

The court was told that her friend had asked Malik and his associates to “look after" the woman while he went to meet another friend, when one of the group took the woman to an isolated part of the park so she could go to the toilet, he raped her, BBC reported.

Prosecution counsel Nicholas Corsellis KC previously told the court: “The defendant then decided he wished to have sex with her and took his turn to take her to a secluded spot, where he physically struck her while raping her." The Sun reported that after raping the woman Malik sickeningly asked her: “Did you enjoy that?"

According to BBC, the 28-year-old, previously of Bath Street in Sutton-in-Ashfield, had claimed the sex was consensual, but was found guilty of two counts of rape by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court in January.

The sentence against Malik was announced on Thursday, along with four years on extended licence.

During the hearing on Thursday, BBC reported, Judge Simon Ash KC said Malik attacked the “particularly vulnerable" woman, despite knowing she was very drunk and had been left alone in a park at night with men she did not know, adding the defendant called her “a slut" repeatedly after the attack.

“When she tried to resist, you hit her hard to the face and head," he said. “Some of the things you said to her did… amount to additional degradation and humiliation of her."

It previously emerged Malik is an asylum seeker who was born in Pakistan and lived in Italy, Germany and France before coming to the UK last year, The Sun reported.

BBC quoted the judge saying, while handing out the sentence, Malik posed “a significant risk" to the public, and had neither shown remorse nor taken responsibility for the assault.

He also cited a pre-sentence report stating that the defendant displayed “distorted thinking by [him] in relation to consent, personal entitlement and the objectification of women".

“Rather than feeling empathy towards [the victim], you appear to feel only hostility and anger towards her," he added.

Following Malik’s sentencing, Nottinghamshire Police said it was still searching for the second suspect in connection with the case.

This comes weeks after British MP Rupert Lowe revealed testimonies of several girls who were once the victims of horrific “grooming gangs" in the country that have been involved in “gang-based child sexual exploitation". Besides, an investigation by the government has found that these gangs were “taxi drivers and market traders of Pakistani heritage".

The reports of young girls being groomed by gangs of men, largely of Pakistani heritage, first began to emerge in 2002, when the then-Labour MP Ann Cryer warned that it was happening in her West Yorkshire constituency of Keighley, according to The Week.

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