“I Married an Afghan Migrant. He Raped Me and Used Me to Claim Asylum”
15th October 2025
Amelia* woke up in the darkness and her ex-husband was standing there above her bed, staring down at her sleeping form.
The man who had threatened to kill her. The man who had threatened to kill her child. The man who had held a butcher’s knife to her throat while she was pregnant with that child.
He had broken into her house. Again.
Javad*, an Afghan migrant known to the police, exploited Amelia to gain asylum in Britain, she claims. He befriended her, persuaded her to marry him, and after their child was born, he used the baby to support his asylum application after repeated previous refusals, before divorcing her.
Even then, the threats continued. He raped her after the divorce.