MoD pays tens of thousands in compensation to two people sexually abused by Libyan army cadets being trained in UK
'Tens of thousands' paid out to man who was raped and teen girl who was attacked
THE MoD has paid tens of thousands in compensation to two people sexually abused by Libyan cadets being trained in the UK.
More than 300 soldiers were being instructed by the Army after the fall of dictator Colonel Gaddafi.
But many left their barracks, in Bassingbourn, Cambs, unescorted.
And in October 2014, several went on the rampage in Cambridge city centre and committed a string of sexual attacks.
Naji El Maarfi, then 21, Mohammed Abdalsalam, then 28, and Khaled El Azibi, then 19, got between ten months and a year for sexually assaulting three teenage girls.
Moktar Ali Saad Mahmoud and Ibrahim Abugtila, raped a man in his 20s on the same night.
Mahmoud was 33 and Abugtila was 23 when they were convicted and jailed for 12 years in May 2015.
The incidents cut short the Ministry of Defence’s agreement to train a total of 2,000 cadets.
Slater and Gordon, lawyers for the rape victim and one of the teens, argued their human rights were breached.
The MoD settled out of court.
The sum was not disclosed but is believed to be tens of thousands of pounds.