An asylum seeker who abducted and raped a 12-year-old in an attack which sparked protests in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, is facing a lengthy jail term. Afghan national Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, whose victim said he laughed while attacking her last summer, will be sentenced after he was found guilty of rape and two counts of sexual assault. Jurors at Warwick Crown Court also convicted him of child abduction and taking an indecent video of the girl during the ordeal near a residential cul-de-sac. He had admitted a further rape charge before his trial and will be sentenced for all counts at the same court on Friday. The trial judge said the defendant would receive “a substantial custodial sentence” which would “automatically make him liable for deportation at its conclusion”. Jurors at the 10-day trial were told that Mulakhil arrived in the UK four months before the rapes and had made an immigration application linked to “problems” he had experienced in Afghanistan. The trial was not told that Mulakhil arrived in Britain by small boat. Mulakhil told police …