A 41-year-old man has been jailed after raping a 15-year-old girl in his car and being caught when the victim secretly called police pretending to order a pizza. Abdul Kahar contacted the girl on Snapchat while posing as a 17-year-old called “Jay” and later drove her to an area of Birmingham after promising they could “drink and chill”.
Birmingham Crown Court heard Kahar forced the girl to drink vodka until she was sick twice before sexually assaulting her in the front of the vehicle and then raping her in the back. The teenager, who was living in a children’s home and in local authority care at the time, tried several times to push him away, and at one point Kahar put his hands around her throat and squeezed so she could not breathe.
Prosecutors said Kahar had groomed the victim online, telling her she looked pretty, asking for naked photos and quizzing her about whether she had had sex and if she would do anything for money. After the attack, the girl tricked him into thinking she was phoning for a takeaway, but instead dialled 999 and asked for a pizza, using a tactic she had seen in a TikTok video about signalling distress.
A West Midlands Police call handler realised the girl was in danger and used yes-or-no questions to establish what was happening and where she was, allowing officers to reach her in Druids Heath and arrest Kahar soon afterwards. He later pleaded guilty to two counts of raping a girl under 16, four counts of sexually assaulting a girl over 13, non-fatal intentional strangulation and breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
Judge Sarah Buckingham sentenced Kahar to 15 years and three months in prison, telling him he was a “sexual predator” with a deep-seated attraction to underage girls who had deliberately targeted a particularly vulnerable child and plied her with alcohol. She said the incident was prolonged and planned and told him he had brought shame on himself and his family.
Defence counsel Ben Hargreaves said Kahar’s wife and eight-year-old son were “dumbfounded” by his behaviour and would suffer the most from his imprisonment. Detective Constable Lauren Campbell praised the victim’s bravery and the call handler’s quick thinking, saying Kahar groomed the girl online before raping and sexually assaulting her in his car and that the case showed how coded calls for help can save lives.