An asylum seeker raped a 13-year-old schoolgirl in woodland after befriending her on Snapchat, a court heard.
Abdul Khan, 28, used the messaging platform to groom the teenager by telling her he was a 14-year-old boy, jurors were told.
He then arranged to meet the teenager after school before taking her on a tram to the woods, jurors were told.
When the defendant was arrested, he said he’d arrived in the UK in the back of a lorry and could not have raped the teen as he’d never had sex before.
Khan, who is being assisted by a Pashto interpreter, is on trial for
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