Iranian rapist came to the UK on a small boat because Germany was ‘unsafe’

An Iranian asylum seeker who came to the UK in a small boat after he carried out a knifepoint rape in Germany told a court he fled the country because he feared for his life. Aref Sadeghi, 36, gave a false name when he was arrested at scandal-hit Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex in June, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard. The shopkeeper was convicted of carrying out the knifepoint rape attack in Hanover in October 2024 but fled Germany before…