Man ‘fled to Pakistan’ after raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter and sent indecent pictures to her mother, court told

A stepfather who allegedly ‘fled to Pakistan’ after raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter claimed he had gone for pigeon racing.

Prosecutors allege the stepfather had decided to abuse the girl after discovering she was sending sexually explicit videos to boys on Snapchat.

He created a Snapchat account for her to use on his phone and then secretly logged in from a different device to watch the indecent videos she created for his own sexual gratification, the court heard.

But he told police he had given the girl the phone which he allegedly used to groom her so she could use it to study the Qu’ran on WhatsApp. But instead the girl used it for TikTok and Snapchat and threatened to make ‘an allegation’ against him if he informed her mother, jurors were told.

The abuse allegedly escalated to the defendant raping her twice, sexually touching her while she was resting while fasting during Ramadan and sending her sexual communications, all during the course of last year, jurors were told.

Eventually, the girl – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – disclosed what was happening to her mother, Reading Crown Court heard.

Warwick Tatford, prosecuting, said: ‘He has fled to Pakistan, without even saying goodbye. He leaves for Pakistan, not having been accused, he just knows it is coming. He fled to Pakistan because he knew what was coming, he knew he was guilty.’

While in the Punjab province of Pakistan, the defendant – who cannot be identified to protect the anonymity of the complainant – had logged on to the Snapchat account 10 times and allegedly deleted material from it, after becoming aware of the allegations.

Prosecutors allege the stepfather had decided to abuse the girl after discovering she was sending sexually explicit videos to boys on Snapchat. Pictured: File photo 

The defendant then sent his wife the indecent videos of her daughter from the Snapchat account, which he claims he did because his wife asked him to. He then returned to the UK, he said, to clear his name.

But the prosecutor said the defendant had only returned after trying to ‘get his wife onside’ to ensure he would not be arrested.

‘He keeps contacting his wife again and again and again, not to say, “I am on the next flight home”, but to get her on side and to poison her against her own daughter’, Mr Tatford said.

‘That is why he sent the images, he does it because it is yet another lever to pull to make sure that when he comes back tot he UK on his own terms, he is not going to be arrested.

‘He has come to this come to this country to make a new life for himself, he has got a family, he is not going to throw it away easily. If he can get away with it, he will.’

Jurors were told the mother and another relative were trying to lure the defendant back to the UK by suggesting they supported him, only for him to be arrested on his return at Heathrow airport.

Giving evidence during the trial, the defendant had complained that one of the mother’s relatives told him: ‘If there is nothing on your phone police would not do anything, it not like the Pakistani police’.

Mr Tatford suggested the defendant ‘rather gave the game away’ by revealing that, suggesting he ‘thought he was in the clear’.

Eventually, the girl – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – disclosed what was happening to her mother, Reading Crown Court (pictured) heard. Pictured: File photo

The prosecutor said that, in a police interview on his return to the UK from Pakistan, the defendant had claimed: ‘I went because of pigeon racing. I am very interested in pigeon racing’.

Mr Tatford told jurors: ‘It is an obvious, pathetic lie. You saw somebody casually lying as if it did not matter to him at all.

‘You saw the twists and turns of a deceitful, calculating person’, the barrister added.

The defendant denies two counts of rape, three counts of non-penetrative sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15, and one count of distributing multiple category A and B indecent videos.

He claimed the girl had her phone confiscated by her mother over her behaviour online, but he had discovered she was sending explicit images and she had said to him: ‘If you tell mum I am going to make an allegation against you.’

His wife had married him in Pakistan and sponsored him to come to the UK, where they lived in a ‘crowded house’ in Slough, Berkshire, with a lot of people living there, the court heard on Thursday.

The trial continues.

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