A high profile protest in Nuneaton town centre was one of the key reasons why a Judge took the rare step of allowing teenage asylum seeker rapists to be named. By law, those aged under 18 cannot usually be named in UK courts.

But during sentencing at Warwick Crown Court yesterday (December 8) Judge Sylvia De Bertodano took the rare decision to allow the two 17-year-old Afghan asylum seekers to be named. Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal both admitted one count of rape of a 15-year-girl in Leamington earlier this year.

Their identities would have remained unreported but CoventryLive and the Press Association, Associated Newspaper Ltd and the BBC made representations for the usual reporting restrictions around under-18-year-olds to be lifted.

Defence barristers for both Jan Jahanzeb and

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