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Friday 28th November 2025
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ASYLUM SEEKER PLEADS GUILTY TO ASSAULT OF LOCAL WOMAN A 20-YEAR-OLD man who sexually assaulted a woman in Cheltenham last year has been sentenced to 27 months. Abdolrahman Banafsha, who was 19 at the time he committed the offences, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Wednesday 5th November. The court was told he specifically targeted a particularly vulnerable woman who had been walking home from a night out in Cheltenham in the early hours of 31st August 2024. During the first day of his trial, the court heard how Banafsha walked past the victim, who was aged 18 at the time, and then he turned around and followed her at a distance. Banafsha then got hold of the woman after she fell over in a side street and he picked her up off the floor. They then walked by a nearby pub and the woman asked if she could gain entry to use their toilets, however she was told she was not allowed in as the pub was shut.
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