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How did Newsnight end up defending a Syrian child rapist?

6 March 2024

8:27 PM

6 March 2024

8:27 PM

This week, a Syrian man named Omar Badreddin was sentenced to 18 years in prison, after being found guilty of five counts of rape and violent disorder. Badreddin, along with his brother and two other men, were part of a grooming gang that abused girls between the ages of 12 and 14.

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