July 2023

Afghan migrant raped a 12-year-old girl

An Afghan migrant caught trying to sneak back into Britain received taxpayer-funded legal help to try and overturn his conviction after being jailed for raping a 12-year-old girl.

Emal Kochai, 29, was deported from Britain in 2019 after serving half of a nine-year prison sentence for raping his victim at a house in Reading, Berks in 2014.

But he made his way back to the Channel in March 2022 where he was found by a reporter in a tent at the Grande Synthe camp, near Dunkirk, claiming he had ‘changed his ways’.

The convicted paedophile admitted tying to board a boat to Britain, but his crossing failed after police arrived and punctured the vessel with a knife.

Now new Freedom of Information figures show the child sex offender received taxpayers’ cash to pay for a solicitor to challenge his conviction prior to being booted out of Britain in 2019.

The asylum seeker turned rapist received a total of £19,395.02 in legal aid cash to pay for his defence at trial plus a further £1,752.31 for a solicitor to work on a Criminal Cases Review Commission application.

The CCRC investigates potential miscarriages of justice.

Kochai has previously claimed his rape conviction was, ‘all a misunderstanding’.

His victim, told police that Kochai had raped her at a house where there were six or seven other men.

She said that Kochai, known to her as AK, had pushed her on to a bed, pulled off her clothing and raped her.

The other men had knocked on the door and Kochai had opened it, then locked it again and resumed his assault, his trial heard.

November 2014

Reading man jailed for nine years for raping 12-year-old girl

A man has been jailed for nine years for raping a 12-year-old girl in a house in East Reading.

Emal Kochai, 20, of King’s Road, East Reading, was accused of the attack with Ghazi Nasir, 22, of Parkside Road, West Reading.

They both denied raping the girl at Kochai’s address in May, this year. Mr Nasir also denied inciting her to commit a sexual act by asking her to perform a sex act on him.

The court previously heard, in a recorded interview, the girl told police she had met ‘Ghazi’ before, but had never met the second man, who she knew only as ‘AK’.

The alleged victim said she was with a friend, then met ‘Ghazi’ and went with him to a house near the college where she claimed they had both oral and full sex.

In a second interview she said there was a second man she knew only as ‘AK’ who had come into the bedroom immediately after ‘Ghazi’ had left and they had sex.

Kochai was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison.