4 teenage boys have been arrested after a 15-year-old woman was allegedly raped at a faculty in Dover. The boys, aged between 13 and 16 are thought to have arrived unaccompanied within the UK from Afghanistan final 12 months. The Instances stories that one of many boys, aged 15 was arrested on suspicion of rape whereas the three others had been arrested on suspicion of facilitating the assault after allegedly pinning the woman down and appearing as "lookouts".
All 4 boys are believed to have been pupils on the identical faculty because the sufferer.
A spokesman for Kent police confirmed their investigation into the alleged incident continues whereas the boys have been launched on bail.
A Kent Police spokesperson mentioned: “4 boys had been arrested as a part of the investigation and have since been launched on bail whereas enquiries proceed.”
The teenagers are reportedly within the care of Kent county council's social companies after they arrived within the UK.
The full variety of migrants who've crossed the English Channel this 12 months has already exceeded 2,000, Residence Workplace figures counsel after an additional 52 folks arrived in a single boat on Saturday.
Evaluation of Residence Workplace and Ministry of Defence (MoD) provisional figures present 1,180 folks had been delivered to the UK in January 2023, in comparison with 1,339 in January 2022. To this point, 890 folks have been delivered to shore in 20 boats in February 2023.
The busiest day of 2023 was January 25 when 321 folks had been delivered to the UK in eight boats, whereas the busiest day on document was August 22 2022, when 1,295 folks had been rescued.
On Sunday Overseas Officer minister Andrew Mitchell mentioned the Governments plan to ship migrants to Rwanda would solely have a "marginal" profit.
To this point no flights have departed the UK carrying migrants to the African nation.
Mr Mitchell mentioned the plan was not the "entire reply" to the issue.
He mentioned: “It is going to be a marginal profit. What we have now to do is to cease these boats and there are a collection of different mechanisms which we may use to try this,” he mentioned.