Afghan asylum seeker who raped Moray teenager jailed for 9 years
Rapualla Ahmadze carried out the 'shocking and violent' attack in Elgin's Cooper Park
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An Afghan asylum seeker who raped a vulnerable teenager in a "shocking and violent" attack in a park in Moray has been sentenced to nine years in jail.
Rapualla Ahmadze carried out the attack in Cooper Park, Elgin during August last year, after approaching the girl and making "intimidating remarks".
Today Ahmadze appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh for sentencing.
The court was told there was a dispute around his age but he would have been around 20 at the time of the attack.
He had earlier been convicted of rape and a separate charge of threatening or abusive behaviour.
Judge Thomas Welsh KC told him: "You were convicted by the jury on the basis that you acted in a predatory manner and took advantage of a vulnerable teenager who was unknown to you, and you raped her in shocking and violent rape on rough ground in Cooper Park. What happened to her that night must have been a horrific ordeal."
He imposed a sentence of nine years in all, backdated to August 2024, and Ahmadze was placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.