An asylum seeker who raped a 13-year-old girl after pretending to be a teenager on Snapchat has been jailed.

Abdul Khan attacked the girl in a nature reserve in Clifton, Nottingham, on 14 May last year.

Khan arrived in the UK in the back of a lorry in 2015, Nottingham Crown Court heard, and faces automatic deportation to Afghanistan after he has served two thirds of his sentence.

He was jailed for nine and a half years on Monday after he was convicted of two counts of rape, one count of sexual activity with a child, sexual communication with a child, meeting a child following grooming and perverting the course of justice.

A four-day trial was told Khan, who is believed to be 28 and already serving a 23-month sentence for sexual communication with a different child in Derbyshire, arranged to meet his victim in woodland after telling her on the Snapchat messaging app he was a 14-year-old boy.

When they met in person and it was clear he was not 14, he tried to appease her by claiming to be 16, the court heard.

After activity that jurors found had been consensual, Khan, of HMP Nottingham, twice raped the girl.

Judge Mark Watson said the victim told her father what had happened and he contacted police.

Khan was then linked to the rapes by a mobile phone seized during his arrest over his contact with the child in Derbyshire.

Yet despite DNA evidence subsequently linking him to the attack, Nottinghamshire Police said he continued to deny having met the victim.

Addressing Khan, the judge said: "You deliberately concealed your true identity. She thought she was communicating with a child of her own age.

"It was a lie you have persisted with throughout these proceedings."