By Andy Dolan,Editor

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A drug user who snatched a five-year-old girl off the street before being found with her in his bedsit has been found guilty of false imprisonment with intent to commit a sexual assault, sexual assault and assault.

Jurors heard Mohammed Abdulraziq, 32, was discovered in his ground floor bedroom with his trousers ‘down to his ankles’ and the girl’s shorts also partially removed after the girl was heard crying inside the address.

The court heard how the child told her mother: ‘The stranger hurt me, mummy’, after she was rescued.

Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court found Abdulraziq guilty by a majority of 11-1 on the false imprisonment and sexual assault charges, and unanimously on the assault charge.

Judge Kerry Maylin ordered Abudlraziq to be assessed by the probation service for ‘dangerousness’, which could result in a life or extended sentence if deemed necessary to protect the public.

Sentencing was adjourned until December 9. Judge Maylin told the defendant: ‘A long custodial sentence is, I’m afraid, inevitable.

‘You must be back at this court for sentence on the 9th of December.

‘In the meantime you will be remanded into custody.’

The Sudanese immigrant had been living in the house of multiple occupation for less than two months when he grabbed the girl in a Birmingham suburb while her mother was talking to a friend, jurors heard.

Prosecutor Tariq Shakoor said when the mother realised her daughter had vanished, the two women checked a nearby park and a corner shop before returning to the street where the mother heard her daughter crying.

The barrister told jurors the mother identified the home where the crying was coming from and added: ‘The front door to the property is locked.

‘(The mother) then starts to bang on the window and door of the property.

‘The defendant is plainly in that room with the child at this time and her mother, in panic, picks up a piece of wood to try and smash the window.

‘That window isn’t smashed despite the attempt to break it.’

The jury of six men and six women heard that the mother’s friend than partially climbed through the window and pulled back a curtain to see ‘the defendant next to a bed’ and the girl opposite him.

The friend told the court: ‘They were standing next to each other. (The girl) was facing the window. He was slightly turned towards her bending down.’

She continued: ‘I could see (the girl’s) cycling shorts she had on, were to the floor, to her ankles. So were his shorts.

‘On the upper body he had a T-shirt on.’

The court heard Abdulraziq swung a punch at the woman and shut the window, causing her to fall back into the street.

The commotion alerted two men, who then forced the door open and one restrained Abdulraziq until police ‘very quickly’ arrived on the scene in an inner city Birmingham suburb.

During the prosecution’s opening of the case last week, Mr Shakoor told jurors Abdulraziq had ‘sexually assaulted (the girl)’.

The prosecutor added: ‘He’s intended to do more towards her sexually, had it not been for the intervention of her mother, a neighbour and others who intervened breaking doors down effectively to get this girl out of the room.’

The alleged incidents unfolded from 2pm on March 30 this year. Abdulraziq gave no comment to police following his arrest – telling jurors that was on the advice of his solicitor.

Abdulraziq told the court he had been in the country for ten years and was from Sudan.

It is understood he had been given permission to stay in the country but a source told the Daily Mail the Home Office was now trying to revoke that permission.

In September 2023, the defendant was jailed for 21 months at Birmingham Crown Court after he was convicted of threatening a GP with a knife in an incident at a surgery the previous November.

He is also awaiting sentence over a separate conviction for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, attempted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and damaging property, an offence which took place five days before he snatched the girl.

The court heard Abdulraziq was Arabic speaking. He sat in the dock with an interpreter beside him during the trial.

Abdulraziq told the jury a jury the child walked into his shared property in the Winson Green suburb to use the toilet and then asked him to help put her shorts back on.

Answering questions through his interpreter, he said he had lived at the address for one to two months, while a European man and African man lived in the rooms upstairs.

Abdulraziq told the court that on the day of the incident, he had been to see a friend and had three cans of beer as well as two cigarettes of ‘Mamba’, a synthetic drug designed to mimic the effects of cannabis but considered more harmful and unpredictable.

A Home Office spokesman said: ‘When foreign nationals commit crimes in this country, we do everything we can to deport them.

‘This government deported almost 5,200 foreign national offenders in its first year in office, a 14% increase on the previous year. We will do everything we can to get these vile criminals off our streets.