Hotel asylum seeker who sexually assaulted 15-year-old girl even after she told him her age is jailed for 15 weeks

Taha Derwish, a 26-year-old asylum seeker staying at a hotel in Crewe, has been jailed for 15 weeks after sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. Police said he made unwanted advances towards a group of teenage girls before touching one of them on the bottom, despite being told their age.

The incident happened on Nantwich Road on 24 September last year, and Derwish was arrested within 10 minutes of police being alerted. He had been appealing a refused asylum application, according to an earlier court hearing. A detective praised the girls for reporting the behaviour promptly and said reports of this kind are taken seriously.