PREDATOR JAILED: Afghan migrant, 27, assaulted boys in park
A 27-year-old Afghan immigrant with no fixed address has been jailed for three years after a jury unanimously convicted him of sexually assaulting two nine-year-old boys in a Nottingham park and forcing one to watch pornography. Dawajan Ahmadzai, born 14 March 1998, was found guilty at Nottingham...
A 27-year-old Afghan immigrant with no fixed address has been jailed for three years after a jury unanimously convicted him of sexually assaulting two nine-year-old boys in a Nottingham park and forcing one to watch pornography.
Dawajan Ahmadzai, born 14 March 1998, was found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court of two counts of sexual assault by touching on a child under 13 and one count of causing a child under 13 to watch a sexual act.
The offences took place on the afternoon of 15 June 2025 at Melbourne Park in Aspley when the boys were playing with friends on go-karts and in the play area.
Sentencing Ahmadzai on Tuesday, Her Honour Judge Julie Warburton described the case as bearing all the hallmarks of predatory behaviour carried out for the defendant’s own deviant sexual pleasure.
“You clearly sought out and pursued contact with these young boys with a view to touching them for your own sexual gratification,” the judge told him.
“I have no doubt this was your intention throughout.”
The jury of seven women and five men took just two hours and eight minutes to reach unanimous guilty verdicts following a week-long trial.
Victim personal statements read to the court by prosecutor Stuart Lody revealed the lasting damage inflicted on the two young victims.
One mother wrote: “Before he was sexually assaulted my son was a bubbly and outgoing child who loved socialising with friends and riding his bike in Melbourne Park.
During the trial the court heard that Ahmadzai approached a small group of children, engaged them in conversation and then began touching one boy from behind.
The victim told police: “He came up behind me and started grabbing my belly so I pinched him to get him off.
He moved his hands up and started to massage my shoulders, digging his fingers into my collar bone.
I elbowed him, launched myself off the go-kart and ran towards the basketball court before calling the police.”
Moments earlier the same defendant had shown the second nine-year-old a short pornographic clip on his mobile phone while urging the other boys to watch.
That boy refused, telling the jury: “I said ‘no, I am not watching dirty stuff’.”
When Ahmadzai was arrested shortly afterwards, officers seized his phone and discovered he was an active member of a social-media application used to broadcast pornographic videos.
Forensic examination of the first victim’s T-shirt recovered the defendant’s DNA from the collar and shoulder area, evidence the prosecution counsel described as “inconsistent with innocent contact”.
Defence counsel Fergus Malone submitted that his client had no previous convictions, was in the United Kingdom legally and had not isolated a single child but approached a group in daylight, adding that the pornography lasted only four seconds.
Judge Warburton rejected the mitigation, emphasising the calculated and predatory nature of the offences.
In addition to the three-year custodial sentence, Ahmadzai was placed on the sex-offender register for life, made subject to a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order and handed a ten-year restraining order prohibiting contact with either victim.
Both boys are protected by lifelong anonymity under the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992.
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