Two Syrian migrants have today been jailed for raping an 'intoxicated' girl after meeting her at a nightclub in a Cheshire town.

Refugee Dilgash Adil, 32, plied the 18-year-old with drink until she was 'falling down' drunk, a court heard.

After carrying out a sex assault he 'invited' his friend, asylum seeker Diyar Mohammed Abdulsalm, 28, to also rape the teenager, Chester Crown Court heard.

The young woman kept blacking out during the sex attack after she travelled back with the men to Abdulsalm’s accommodation in a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) in Winsford, Cheshire, on December 21, 2025.

Both men claimed the woman consented to sex and denied rape but were convicted after a trial ending last month.

Adil, who was a shepherd in his native Syria before the civil war and was granted refugee status after coming to the UK in 2020, was convicted of one count of rape.

Abdulsalm, who claimed asylum in the UK in May 2023, with his immigration status still under assessment at the time of the offences, was co