A MAN has been jailed for ten years for raping a 12-year-old girl after “the devil got to him”.

Kamran Ahmed, a Pakistani national, had married a British woman and been in the UK fewer than six months when he violated the child.

Ahmed, 27, of Rushton Road, Thornbury, Bradford, will be deported after serving his prison sentence, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, told him.

Ahmed pleaded guilty on the day of his trial to raping the girl after pulling off her clothing and telling her: “I have to do this.”

He had previously told her she was pretty, touched her indecently and tried to kiss her, prosecutor Tom Storey told Bradford Crown Court yesterday.

Ahmed said no-one would believe her because she was a child and he was an adult.

The girl’s school work deteriorated and she told a teacher she had been “assaulted in a dirty way”.

The man confessed the crime to his wife, saying “the devil had got to him,” Mr Storey said.

Ahmed’s barrister, Mohammed Ramzan, said the man had also destroyed his own life.

“The case has had a devastating effect and he is extremely ashamed of his conduct and what he has done,” he said.

“He will be deported back to Pakistan after serving his sentence and he will take the shame with him.”

Mr Ramzan conceded that the girl will carry the “torture” with her for the rest of her life.

Judge Thomas said Ahmed had been in the UK only a few months when he began making sexual advances to the girl.

He had then forcibly raped her.

A few days later, Ahmed had again approached the girl, wanting her to carry out a sex act.

The child, whose family were of the Islamic faith, had felt ashamed and too embarrassed to tell anyone at first, the court heard.

She had kept it to herself, while suffering inner turmoil, Judge Thomas said.

An able pupil, her behaviour and schoolwork had deteriorated.

“She was unable to take advantage of counselling because it was too painful and difficult to speak about what had happened, even in such a private setting,” the judge said.

He told Ahmed: “It is impossible to think that the effects of your crime on her will somehow dissipate in any substantial way.

“One fears that her future years will be very badly affected by what you did to her.”

Ahmed must sign on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

He will “undoubtedly and inevitably” be deported back to Pakistan, Judge Thomas stated.