Asylum seeker rapists sentenced

Two Sudanese asylum seekers who raped a young mother within four weeks of arriving in the UK have been jailed for a total of 10-and-a-half years.
Ahmed Mohammed, 30, and Osman Eltomme, 19, dragged the woman to the Nayland Rock Hotel in Margate where they were staying, Canterbury Crown Court heard.
They then raped the 20-year-old in the garden during the attack on 23 July.
Judge Anthony Webb said he would recommend they be deported after serving their sentences.
Both men pleaded guilty to rape in October.
The court heard the victim left the Escape nightclub after losing her girlfriends, and was walking towards a friend's home at about 0300 BST on the morning of the attack.
She told police Mohammed appeared to be giving the younger man instructions during the attack. Neither spoke English.
The pair were scared off by a male passer-by who was walking his dogs and heard screams of "no, please, no," said prosecutor Jonathan Higgs.
Christopher Sutton-Mattocks, defending Mohammed, said: "He's a man of good character in this country, which says little as he was only here for one month before this offence."
Eltomme, who had arrived in the UK 10 days prior to the attack, had asked that his "body be cut into 1,000 pieces and given to the victim, the police and the British public" to express his shame, said his defence, Sarah Plaschkes.
'Group safety'
Mr Webb told Eltomme he had no doubt he would also have raped the victim, who has a three-year-old daughter, had it not been for the intervention of the passer-by.
He told him he would serve half of a five year sentence in a young offenders' institution.
Mr Webb told Mohammed: "You have persisted in telling the probation officer that the victim in some way encouraged you to act in the way that you did."
Mohammed will serve a minimum of two-and-three-quarter years of a five-and-a-half-year jail sentence for public protection before being considered for parole.
The victim's statement read: "The memory of that night will be with me always. My life has been changed completely.
"If I can offer any advice to other women as a result of this, make sure that you don't get left alone if you go out in a group."