A 15-year-old schoolgirl begged a female passerby to intervene as she was dragged away to be raped by two Afghan asylum seekers, but ‘no one came to her aid’.

Horrific details of the victim’s ordeal were revealed in court as Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, were jailed for the attack in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

The two defendants had arrived in Britain in small boats just months before targeting the child in a park on May 10 this year.

Phone footage captured by the victim was so appalling that one of the boy’s own barristers warned it would lead to ‘disorder’ if ‘the general public were exposed’ to it.

In the distressing three-minute clip, the girl could be heard crying, ‘you’re going to rape me’, as she was led away from where she had been drinking with friends and taken to a secluded ‘den-type’ area in nearby parkland.

The footage, played at Warwick Crown Court yesterday, also showed her weeping, screaming ‘help me, someone help me’ and begging not to be taken by the pair.

She was forced to perform a sex act on the boys in a secluded area, before she escaped and filmed more clips describing her ordeal.

At one point in the initial three-minute clip, a woman can be heard stopping and asking in urgent tones if the girl is alright.

The girl cries that she is not alright, before yelling ‘help!’ repeatedly.

Yet, for reasons that remain unclear, there was no further effort by the witness to intervene.

Police are understood to have failed to track down the female passerby so have been unable to establish why she apparently abandoned her efforts to rescue the girl.

In her sentencing remarks, Judge Sylvia de Bertodano said: ‘Although at one stage a woman can be heard asking if she was alright, no one came to her aid.’

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Jan Jahanzeb, 17, led the girl away from her friends and was caught on video covering her mouth as she tried to scream

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Israr Niazal, also 17, pleaded guilty to raping the teenage victim, having arrived in the UK in November 2024

Shawn Williams, prosecuting, said of the passerby: ‘Tragically, for whatever reason, they did not help her.’

Describing the clip to the court yesterday, Mr Williams added: ‘The video footage is of a very distressing nature.

‘(The victim) is heard screaming for help – she wants her friends, she wants to go home – she can be heard explicitly stating, “You’re going to rape me”, repeatedly shouting “let me go” and she’s pleading for help from passers-by.’

CCTV footage captured from a nearby bridge showed the boys marching down the road with the victim between them.

She was taken to a ‘bushy den type of area, a really secluded location’ where she was pushed down to her knees, which ripped her jeans and grazed one knee.

After being forced to perform oral sex on both boys, she was able to escape and filmed a series of videos of herself crying as she walked down the road.

She could be heard saying: ‘Oh my god, I just got f****** kidnapped by these guys…I was screaming for help and no one was listening to me. Help me, someone help me, why is no one helping me? I thought I would be dead.’

A man who saw her distress did stop to help her and encouraged her to report the matter immediately to the police, taking her to a nearby police station where officers were able to obtain vital forensic evidence.

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Chilling CCTV released by police showed two boys leading their victim across a bridge to a park where they forced her to perform oral sex on them

In an impact statement read to Warwick Crown Court at the attackers’ sentencing, the victim said: ‘The day I was raped changed me as a person. I’m no longer a happy, carefree teenager. This was my first sexual experience.

‘When I go out, I no longer feel safe, so much so that I have started to avoid it all together. This has also impacted my education and school life at the worst possible time as I’m taking my GCSEs.

‘I hate that I’m now looked at as a victim, even though that is exactly what I am.’

Ahead of jailing Jahanzeb for ten years and eight months, and Niazal for nine years and ten months, the judge also accepted a legal challenge mounted by the Daily Mail which meant they could be named for the first time.

The judge said the pair had ‘betrayed the interests’ of genuine refugees and ‘should feel a deep and lasting sense of shame’.

She added: ‘No child should have to suffer the ordeal [the victim] has suffered. The fact is, you two have robbed her of her childhood.’

Even Niazal’s own lawyer Joshua Radcliffe called the phone footage ‘genuinely horrific’, adding: ‘I have no doubt that if the general public were exposed to that, we would have disorder on our hands.’

Robert Holt, defending Jahanzeb, went further by asking the judge to stop the press from even being able to say the boys were Afghan asylum seekers.

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The terrified girl was forced to perform oral sex on the boys in a secluded area next to Newbold Comyn in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

The judge told the defendants: ‘I accept that you come from a place which has significant cultural differences from the UK – however, I don’t accept that either of you does not understand the concept of consent.

‘This is a case where it was absolutely clear to both of you that you were talking a child away from her friends in the face of her vigorous protests to somewhere you couldn’t be observed, in order to commit this offence.

‘I’m satisfied you both knew perfectly well that what you were doing was criminal and wrong.

‘You have betrayed the interests of those, like you, who come here fleeing harm and seeking safety and for that you should feel a deep and lasting sense of shame.’

The asylum seekers were living in taxpayer-funded houses at the time of the attack, having arrived in the UK by small boats as unaccompanied children.

The boys admitted the attack in October. Jahanze faces deportation, but Niazal does not, as he pleaded guilty a day before turning 17 – too young to qualify.

His barrister made the extraordinary suggestion this would allow the younger of the two rapists to ‘make a life for himself in this country’ when he is eventually released.

The judge later confirmed during her sentencing that she would recommend that the Home Secretary considers deporting both Jahanzeb and Niazal.

It is understood Jahanzeb only succeeded in making the crossing in January, after three previous failed attempts which saw French police repeatedly cutting up his dinghy.