GB News halts for breaking migrant alert – and its | UK News

It’s been a turbulent few weeks for Keir Starmer as migrant crossings have surged once again, and it seems as though issues are only going to get harder for the Labour chief. On Friday afternoon (February 27), GB News issued a breaking news update about a convicted Afghan rapist. Earlier today, it was announced that Musafar Hotak was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was convicted of rape and inappropriate assault by penetration following a trial at Southampton Crown Court.

Now, the 55-yr-outdated broadcaster announced some recent particulars on the case, revealing that the 25-yr-outdated felony arrived in the UK by a small boat just one month prior to the horrific assault in 2022. He started: “The breaking news update is that this man, who was convicted for rape and inappropriate assault by penetration, arrived by a small boat in prison just one month before that life-changing assault and rape of a British woman.”

The court heard that the sufferer had left the Cafe Parfait bar in Southampton when she was requested to depart by the bouncers for being drunk. As she tried to contact her girlfriend, the defendant, who was 22 at the time, began to comply with her before a voicemail despatched on the sufferer’s cellphone heard her telling him to stop.

The court was told that the next factor the complainant remembered was waking up in Hotak’s home with him mendacity on top of her and inappropriately assaulting her, then raping her. She repeatedly told him to stop, but she felt unable to forestall him because he was utilizing “a lot of force”, the court heard.

After sharing the latest update, viewers flocked to X – previously identified as Twitter – to share their ideas online, with one person posting: “Well, things won’t change if you keep doing the same thing. Stop the f’ing boats! [angry emoji].” It comes after Home and Security Editor Mark White revealed that virtually 600 migrants crossed the Channel via small boats in just at some point, a determine far larger than anticipated.

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He told Bev Trner: “In terms of the numbers crossing, this was a phenomenally busy day in the Channel. You don’t normally see numbers like this – close to 600 crossing – until we’re well into the summer months.” Although the climate circumstances have been “atrocious”, around 2,200 small boat migrants have arrived in the UK since the start of the yr.

Sources have confirmed to Mark that 2026 will doubtless be a document yr in phrases of the quantity of migrants coming into the UK illegally. He continued: “We can tell you more sobering news of about 4,500 migrants who are currently in the makeshift camps around Calais and Dunkirk. Again, this is unusual.

“There will not be usually that quantity of people in the camps in the winter because there aren’t as many alternatives to cross the UK. All these level to a very busy yr forward.”