Girl, 13, repeatedly raped by asylum seeker after being lured to hotel by him and another man who stood watch
An asylum seeker repeatedly raped a 13-year-old girl in a hotel room after he and another man lured her there.
The teenage girl was meeting up with her friends in Hull when she encountered Shahram Ibrehemi, who was 19 at the time, and Riley Smith, who was then 18.
Ibrehemi, an Iranian asylum seeker who came to the UK aged 17, and Smith, from Grimsby but living in Hull at the time, invited her to ‘go around town with them’ and told her that they were staying at a hotel.
The girl told Ibrehemi and Smith that she was 13 years old, telling them to ‘go away’ and calling them both ‘paedos’.
However, men persisted with their attempt to lure her to go with them and she decided to give them her mobile number in the hope they would leave her alone.
The girl then left with her friends and drank three-quarters of a litre of vodka mixed with cherry Coke, leaving her ‘unable to walk in a straight line’.
The two men met up with the teenager later that evening, before luring her to the hotel, where she was raped by Ibrehemi – as Smith acted as a look-out.
Judge Gurdial Singh told Ibrehemi: ‘She was your quarry. She did not stand a chance when you approached her. You told her to stand up and come with you. You frog-marched her to the hotel.’
Shahram Ibrehemi repeatedly raped a 13-year-old girl in a room at a hotel. He was locked up for nine years and seven months.
Riley Smith, who acted as a lookout in the hotel corridor, was jailed up for seven years
CCTV showed that the girl was ‘barely capable of standing, let alone walk in a straight line’, the judge added.
After leading the girl to Smith’s room, he stood outside and told Ibrehemi that he would give them 20 minutes.
Ibrehemi repeatedly raped the girl as Smith kept entering the room, telling him to ‘shut her up as she was going to get you both caught’.
Footage from the hotel corridor showed Smith ‘pacing up and down like a cat on a hot tin roof’ while he was on lookout and occasionally looking into the room.
A member of the hotel staff, who had been alerted by the suspicious behaviour, confronted Smith, but he claimed he was attempting to get a signal for his mobile phone.
However, the staff member heard Smith open the room door, telling Ibrehemi to ‘hurry up’.
The men then walked the girl out of the hotel, with CCTV showing her heavily intoxicated and barely able to walk.
The girl’s next recollection was being collected by her father and being taken home, the court heard.
She later confided in a friend and Humberside Police were alerted.
In a victim impact statement read in court, the schoolgirl said: ‘The pain and hurt is hard to comprehend.
‘The two men have taken away by confidence, my personality, my ability to function and my virginity. My virginity should have been protected, as should have I.
‘It should have been with someone I love and someone who loved me. I will never get over being raped. It is with me every second of every minute of every hour of every day.’
Ibrehemi, who had been looked after in immigration-based accommodation in Hull, admitted rape.
He came to the UK from his native Iran as a 17-year-old refugee because his father paid people smugglers to take him, due to danger in his homeland.
Ibrehemi was isolated, with little contact with his family in Iran and no previous convictions, the court heard.
‘It is likely that the Home Office will be looking towards deportation,’ his lawyer, Rachel Scott, said.
Smith, who came from history of exploitation in County Lines drug dealing, denied the accusations but was convicted by a jury and refused to attend sentencing.
Judge Singh said that the offenders acted together to commit the rape and it was committed while the girl was heavily intoxicated.
Ibrehemi was locked up for nine years and seven months.
Smith, of no fixed address, was jailed for seven years.
Judge Singh told him: ‘You were a look-out, keeping watch. Without you providing the room and lying to the witness, this offence could not have been committed.’
Both will serve at least two-thirds of the sentence before being considered for parole.
They will be on the sex offenders’ register for life and are barred from working anywhere with children.
Addressing the victim, Judge Singh said that the custodial sentences would be of little comfort to her and it would not make up for what happened.
He stressed to her that she was the victim and not to reproach herself for taking alcohol.
‘All young people are entitled to make mistakes,’ the Judge said.
‘They took advantage of you. You had the most awful experience. It was not of your making.’
