Three Afghan nationals jailed for raping Bristol teenager

Summarised from 3 outlets · Updated 6 Oct, 18:37 · Archive

Three Afghan nationals have been jailed for grooming and raping a 17-year-old girl in Bristol in November 2025.

Three Afghan nationals were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court after being found guilty of grooming and raping a 17-year-old girl in Bristol in November 2025. Mehrab Safi, 21, received a 15-year prison sentence after being convicted of one count of human trafficking and two charges of rape. Salman Habibkheil and Awal Ahmadzai, both 19, were each sentenced to nine years. A fourth attacker, an Afghan boy aged 17, also participated in the assault but cannot be named for legal reasons.

The four men fled Britain in the back of a lorry three days after the attack. Video footage showed them celebrating as they escaped the UK. The Daily Mail reports that they had groomed the girl with vodka and cigarettes before the assault.

How it is being reported

• Three men jailed for raping teenage girl before fleeing UK in back of lorryTrio and 17-year-old boy convicted of rape after they persuaded girl to travel into Bristol alone and got her drunk Three men who raped a 17-year-old girl before escaping from the UK to France in the back of a lorry have been jailed for a total of 33 years. Mehrab Safi, 21, Salman Habibkheil and Awal Ahmadzai, both 19, and a 17-year-old boy plied the girl with alcohol after she had been persuaded to travel into Bristol alone, and all four raped her at a house in the city. Continue reading...Guardian World · 6 Oct, 18:23
• Four Afghans who fled UK in back of a lorry after gang-raping teenage girl they groomed with vodka and cigarettes jailedMehrab Safi, 21, Salman Habibkheil and Awal Ahmadzai, both 19, and a boy, 17, attacked the 17-year-old girl at a house in Bristol in November last year.Daily Mail · 6 Oct, 18:17
• Afghan nationals jailed after grooming and raping teenage girl in Bristol before 'celebrating' fleeing BritainThree Afghan nationals who fled the country after grooming and raping a teenage girl in Bristol in November 2025 were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court today. Mehrab Safi, 21, Awal Ahmadzai, 19, and Salman Habibkheil, 19, filmed themselves "celebrating" as they escaped the UK in the back of a lorry three days after they, and an Afghan boy, 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, raped the girl, 17. Mehrab Safi has been handed a prison sentence of 15 years after being found guilty of one count of human trafficking and two charges of rape. Salman Habibkheil has been sentenced to nine years…GB News · 6 Oct, 17:24

In this story: Mehrab Safi · Salman Habibkheil · Awal Ahmadzai · Bristol · Bristol Crown Court

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